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Lafayette  Day  Exercises 

In  commemoration  of  the  double 
Anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Lafayette  and  the  battle  of 
the  Marne :  September  6th,  1917 


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LAFAYETTE  DAY 
NATIONAL  COMMITTEE 


Charles  W.  Eliot 
Moorfield  Storey 
Caspar  F.  Goodrich 
Judson  Harmon 
Myron  T.  Herrick 
Joseph  H.  Choate  * 
George  Haven  Putnam 
George  W.  Wickersham 
*  deceased 


Theodore  Roosevelt 

Henry  van  Dyke 

William  D.  Gnthrie 

Henry  Watterson 

Charles  J.  Bonaparte 

Charles  P.  Johnson 

W.  R.  Hodges 

Chas.  Stewart  Davison,  Hon  Sec'y. 

Maurice  Leon,  Recording  Sec'y. 


60  Wall  Street,  New  York 


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Officers  and  Special  Committees  of 
Lafayette  Day  Exercises  held  in  New  York 

In  commemoration  of  the  double  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 

Lafayette  and  the  Battle  of  the  Marne 

September  6th,  1917 


Thbodore  Roosevelt 


Honorary  Presidents: 
Eliiiu  Root 


Hon.  Willard  Babtlett,  Chairman 


Frank  A.  Vanderlip, 

Honorary   Chairman 
Maurice  Leon,  Acting  Chairman 
Peter  T.  Barlow 
William  Curtis  Demorest 


George  T.  Wilson,  Chairman 
George  W.  Burleigh, 

Vice-Chairman 
C.  C.  Burlingham 
Henry  Ives  Cobb 
William  Curtis  Demorest 


Executive  Committee 
Charles  DeRahm 
Job  E.  Hedges 
J.   Pierpont  Morgan 
Carlisle  Norwood 
John  Quinn 

Arrangements  Committee 
Lafayette   B.   Gleason 
Henry    Winthrop    Hardon 
J.    Montgomery    Hare 
Maurice   Leon 
Robert    C.    Morris 
Lewis  H.  Pounds 


Jambs  Stillman 


Charles  Howland  Russell 
Isaac  N.  Seligman 
George  T,  Wilson 


Ogden  Reid 
Theodore   Rousseau 
Nelson  S.  Spencer 
Alfred  T.  White 


Committee  on  Decoration  of  Buildings  £  Monuments 
William  A.  Coffin,  Chairman  William   Bailey  Faxon  De  Witt  M,  Lockman 


William  B.  Van  Ingen, 
Vice-chairman 


John  Flanagan 
Cass  Gilbert 


Will  H.  Low 


Lawrence  F.  Abbott,  Chairman 
Edward  Harding,  Vice-Chairman 
James  M.   Beck 
Edward  C.  Bridgman 
Henry  Ives  Cobb 
E.  Mora  Davison 


Committee  in  charge  of  Exercises  at  Lafayette  Monument, 
Union  Square,  New   York 

Charles  A.  Downer  Langdon   P.  Marvin 

Lawrence  Godkin  Alexander  T.  Mason 

Hon.  Samuel  Greenbaum  George  Haven  Putnam 

Hon.  Learned  Hand  Charles   Scribner 

Richard  M.   Hurd  William  G.  Willcox 
C  Grant  LaFarge 


Committee  m  charge  of  Exercises  at  Lafayette  Memorial, 
Prospect  Park,  Brooklyn 
Hon.  Lewis  H.  Pounds,  Chairman  Fred  W.  Atkinson  Alfred  T.  White 

Frederick   Boyd   Stevenson,  Hon.  William  M.  Calder 

Vice  Chairman  E.  Hubert  Litchfield 


William   D.    Guthrie,    Chairman 
John  Jay  Chapman, 

Vice-Chairman 
John  G.  Agar 
Richard   Aidrich 
S.  R.  Bertron 
Gen,   Oliver  B.   Bridgman 
Franklin  Q.. Brown 
George  W.  Burleign 
W.  A.  Day 
Carroll  Dunham 
Newcomb  Carlton 


Reception  Committee 
R.  Fulton  Cutting 
Abram  I.  Elkua 
Madison  Grant 
Henry  G.  Gray 
Edward  Harding 
Lucien  Jouvaud 
Boudinot   Keith 
Maurice  Leon 
George  L.  LeBlanc 
Carlisle  Norwood 
Stephen  H.  Olin 
Robert  Olyphant 


Finance  Committee 
August   Belmont,    Chairman  Frederick  H.  Allen 

Samuel  McRoberts,  Vice  Chairman  T.  W.  Lamont 


Dr.  Leighton  Parka 
H.   Hobart  Porter 
John  Quinn 

Charles  Howland  Russell 
Herbert  L.  S'atterlee 
Frank  H.  Simonds 
R.  A.  C.  Smith 
Charles  A.  Stone 
George  T.  Wilson 
John  M.  Woolsey 


Isaac  N.  Seligman 


Mrs.    Atherton,   Chairman 


Ladie's  Section  of  Committee 

Mrs.  Frank  A.  Vanderlip,  Vice-Chairman 
Chas.    Stewart    Davison,    Honorary    Secretarj/ 
William  Redmond  Cross,  Treasurer 
Maurici  Leon,  Recording  Secretary 
60  Wall  Street,  New  York 


LAFAYETTE  DAY  CITIZENS'  COMMITTEE  OF  NEW  YORK 


Lawrence  F.   Abbott 

John  G.  Agar 

Richard  Aldrich 

Courtland  V.  Anable 

Frederick  H.  Allen 

Francis  L.  Appleton 

Fred.  W.   Atkinson 

Grosvenor  Atterbury 

Gorham  Bacon 

Robert  Bacon 

Peter  T.  Barlow 

Herbert  Barry 

Philip  Golden  Bartlett 

Willard  Bartlett 

George  Gordon  Battle 

Edmund  L.  Baylies 

Henry  Willard  Bean 

James  M.  Beck 

Charles  K.  Beeknum 

Lucius  Hart  Beer* 

Maj.  Gen.  Bell 

August  Belmont 

S.  Reading  Bertron 

Dr.  Herman  Biggs 

Joseph  B.  Bishop 

George  Blagden 

C.  N.  Bliss,  Jr. 

Francke  H.  Bosworth 

John  W.  Brannan 

Edward  C.  Bridgman 

Gen.  Oliver  B.  Bridgman 

Franklin  Q.  Brown 

George  W.  Burleigh 

Charles  C.  Burlingbam 

Edward  Burnett 

Charles  Butler 

Micholas  Murray  Butler 

James  Byrne 

William  M.  Calder 

William  C.  Cammann 

Newcomb  Carlton 

Oscar  R.   Cauchois 

William  M.  Chadbourne 

John  Jay  Chapman 

Joseph  H.  Choate,  Jr. 

T.  Ludlow  Chrystie 

J.  Herbert  Clairborne 

Courtlandt  C.  Clarke 

R.  Floyd  Clarke 

Henry  Ives  Cobb 

William  A.  Coffin 

Bainbridge  Colby 

Henry  D.  Cooper 

Joseph  P.  Cotton 
:     Paul  D.  Cravath 
■     John  D.  Crimming 
•     George  Cromwell 

William  Redmond  Cross 

F.  Cunliffe-Owen 

William  E.  Curtis 

R.  Fulton  Cutting 

Victor  W.  Cutting 

Howland  Davis 
'    Chas.  Stewart  Davison 
,    E.  Mora  Davison 
I    W.  A.  Day 
,    Robert  W.  DeForest 
,1    L.  C.  Deming 
/   William  Curtis  Demorest 

F.  S.  Grand  d'Hauteville 
I.    Charles  DeRham 
/   Cleveland  H.  Dodge 


Hon,  Frank  L.  Dowling 

Charles  A.  Downer 

William  Kinnicutt  Draper 

Henry  Russell  Drowne 

Carroll  Dunham 

Hon.  Abram  I.  Elkus 

Ellsworth  Eliot,  Jr. 

Grenville  T.  Emmet 

Allen  W.  Evarts 

William  Bailey  Faxon 

Hamilton  Fish 

John  Flanagan 

John  H.  Finley 

Frederick  DePeyster  Foster 

Austen  G.  *ox 

Amos  Tuck  French 

Algernon  S.  Frisseil 

Frederick  Gallatin 

Wumner  Gerard 

Fraukiin  H.  Giddings 

Cass  Gilbert 

Lafayette  B.  Gleasou 

Lawrence  Godkin 

Harold  Godwin 

Richard  Gottheil 

Madison  Grant 

Rev.  Dr.  Percy  Stickney  Grant 

Henry  G.  Gray 

Hon.  Samuel  Greenbaum 

Right  Rev.  Dr.  David  H.  Greer 

Lawrence  Greer 

Geo.  Bird  Grinnell 

William  D.  Guthrie 

Winston  H.  Hagen 

Montgomery  Hallowell 

Learned  Hand 

Edward  Harding 

Henry  Winthrop  Harden 

J.  Montgomery  Hare 

Robert  Lewis  Harrison 

George  Harvey 

McDougall  Hawkes 

Alan  R.  Hawley 

Job  E.  Hedges 

Alexander  J.  Hemphill 

A.  Barton  Hepburn 

Chas.  R.  Hickox 

Ripley  Hitchcock 

Hon.  George  C.  Holt 

Henry  Holt 

Brig.  Gen.  Eli  D.  Hoyle,  U.  S.  A. 

Gerald  Livingston  Hoyt 

Charles  E.  Hughes 

Andrew  Beaumont  Humphrey 

Richard  M.  Hurd 

Robert  Underwood  Johnson 

Francis  C.  Jones 

Lucien  Jouvaud 

Boudinot  Keith 

James  E.  Kelly 

Howard  Thayer  Kingsbury 

Maurice  Kozmynski 

E.  Henry  Lacombe 

Col.  WMlliam  Whitehead  Ladd 

C.  Grant  LaFarge 

C.  Grand  LaFarge 

Thomas  W.  Lamont 

M.  B.  Leahy 

George  L.  Leblanc 

Maurice  Leon 

E.  Hubert  Litchfield 

DeWitt  M.  Lockman 


Will  H.  Low 
James  B.  Ludlow 
Wallace  Mac  Farlane 
George  Barr  McCutcheon 
Samuel  Mc  Roberts 
Clarence  H.  Mackay 
H.  S'nowden  Marshall 
Henry  Rutgers  Marshall 
E.  S.  Martin 
Langdon  Parker  Marvin 
Alexander  T.  Mason 
John  G.  Milburn 
Charles  R.  Miller 
Robert  Shaw  Mintum 
Edward  P.  Mitchell 
Hon.  John  Purroy  Mitchel 
Edward  C.  Moen 
Victor  Morawetz 
J.  Pierpont  Morgan 
Robert  C.  Morris 
Charles  0.  Nadal 
Louis  W.  Noel 
Carlisle  Norwood 
Walter  G.  Oakman 
Stephen  H,  Olin 
Robert  Olyphant 
Talbot  Olyphant 
Hon.  Samuel  H.  Ordway 
E.  H.  Outerbridge 
Alton  B.  Parker 
William  Parkin 
Rev.  Dr.  Leighton  Parks 
Samuel  Parrish 
William  Barclay  Parsons 
George  Foster  Peabody 
Edwa/-d  H.  Peaslee 
Hon.  Francis  K.  Pendleton 
Rev.  Dr.  John  P.  Peters 
John  B.  Pine 
George  A.  Plimpton 
H.  Hobart  Porter 
Hon.  Le-vis  H.  Pounds 
William  A.  Prendergast 
William  A.  Purrington 
George  Haven  Putnam 
John  Quinn 
William  C.  Redfield 
Ogden  Reid 
Theodore  Roosevelt 
Talbot  Root 
Theodore  Rousseau 
Charles  Howland  Russell 
Herbert  L.  Satterlee 
William  Jay  Schieffelin 
Mortimer  L.  Schiff 
Charles  Scribner 
Isaac  N.  S'eligman 
Lawrence  E.  Sexton 
Porter  Clyde  Shannon 
Albert  Shaw 

Hon.  Clarence  J.  Shearn 
Edward' W.  Sheldon 
P.  Tecumseh  Sherman 
Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Silverman 
Frank  H.  Simonds 
John  W.  Simpson 
William  Sloane 
R.  A.  C.  Smith 
Nelson  S.  Spencer 
Francis  Lynde  Stetson 
John  A.  Stevens 
Frederick  Boyd  Stevenson 


John  A.  Stewart 

James  Stillman 

Charles  A.  Stone  i 

Willard  D.  Straight  ^ 

Oscar  S.  Straus 

Charles  H.  Strong 

Howard  Taylor 

Augustus  Thomas 

Col.  Robt.  M.  Thompson 

Dr.  William  Oilman  Thompson 

J.  Kennedy  Tod 

Edward  Trenchard 

Allen  Tucker 

Bayard  Tuckerman 

Eliot  Tuckerman 

Paul  Tuckerman 

Rear  Admiral  N.  R.  Usher 

Guy  Van  Amringe 

William  B.  Van  lugen 

John  C.  Van  Dyke 

William  Van  Ingen 

Frank  A.  Vanderlip 

William  R.  Warren 

J.  Alden  Weir 

T.  Tileston  Wells 

Alfred  T.  White 

George  W.  Wickersham 

W^illiam  G.  Wilcox 

George  T.  Wilson 

Louis  Wiley 

Beekman  Winthrop 

Dr.  Stephen  S'.  Wise 

Arthur  King  Wood 

Arthur  Woods 

John  M.  Woolsey 

James  A.  Wright 

Rev.  T.  Wucher 

George  Zabriskie 

Mrs.  Frederick  H.  Allen 

Mrs.  Gertrude  Atherton 

Mrs.  Robert  Bacon 

Mrs.  Sanford  Bissell 

Miss  Helen  Varick  Boswell 

Mrs.  Carrie  Chapman  Catt 

Mrs.  Wm.  Astor  Chandler 

Mrs.  Charles  H.  Ditson 

Mrs.  Carroll  Dunham 

Miss  Theodora  Dunham 

Mrs.  Hamilton  R.  Fairfax 

Mrs.   Herbert  L.  Griggs 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Harriman 

Mrs.  J.  Borden  Harriman 

Miss  Winifred  Holt 

Miss  Luisita  A.  Leland 

Mrs.  Henry  P.  Loomis 

Mrs.  Walter  Maynard 

Mrs.  Frederick  Nathan 

Mrs.  Ethelbert  Nevin 

Mrs.  Douglas  Robinson 

Mrs.  Livingston  Row  Schuyler 

Mrs.  Arthur  H.  Scribner 

Mrs.  Louis  Livingston  Seaman 

Mrs.  William  G.  Slade 

Mrs.  George  Wilson  Smith 

Miss  Robinson  Smith  > 

Miss  Carita  Spencer  \ 

Mrs.  Frank  A.  Vanderlip 

Mrs.  Whitney  Warren 

Mrs.  Mary  Hatch  Willard 


TABLE  OP  CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Introduction 1 

Call  Issued  by  Lafayette  Day  National  Committee .  3 

Exercises  at  City  Hall,  New  York: 

Address— Hon.  Willard  Bartlett 5 

Address — Mayor  Mitchel 7 

Reading  of  Messages  by  Mr.  Leon : 

President  of  French  Republic 9 

Marshal  Joffre 10 

Ambassador  Jusserand 10 

General  Pershing 11 

Ambassador  Sharp 11 

President  Butler  (of  Columbia) 12 

Reading  of  Message  by  Commander  Blackwood: 

Admiral  Sir  David  Beatty 12 

Address — Hon.  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman. .  13 

Address — Hon  Henry  van  Dyke,  D.  C.  L 15 

Address — Dr.  Finley 24 

Address — M.  Tardieu 29 

Lafayette  Day  Banquet,  New  York: 

Address — The  French  Ambassador 37 

Exercises  at  Statue  of  Lafayette,  Union  Square, 

New  York  City 44 

Address — Mr.  John  Quinn 47 

Exercises — Prospect  Park,  Brooklyn 50 

Address — Mr.  Stephane  Lauzanne 50 

Lafayette  Day  in  France 57 

Lafayette  Day  in  United  States  outside  of  New 
York: 

Philadelphia 65 

San  Francisco 75 

Los  Angeles 77 


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Seattle 77 

New  Orleans '  ^ 

Boston ^1 

New  Bedford 81 

Albany ^^ 

Baltimore  ^^ 

Washington ••••••  ^^ 

Charleston  ......' • •  •  •  ^^ 

Allentown,  Pa. ^^ 

Saratoga ^^ 

Hudson,  N.  Y. 87 

Irvington,  N.  Y 88 

Wheeling,  W.  Va 88 


"-to 


Lafayette,  Here  we  are!''     Reprint  from  Out- 
look, Oct.  17,  1917 93 

Lafayette  Day  and  the  Press 104 

Address  presented  to  Maurice  Leon  by  his  fellow- 
members  of  the  Lafayette  Day  National  Com- 
mittee    109 

ILLUSTRATIONS 

Arrival  at  City  Hall,  New  York,  September  6th,  ' 
1917 33 

On  the  steps  of  City  Hall,  New  York,  after  the 
Lafayette  Day  Exercises 35 

Celebration— Union  Square,  N.  Y 45 

Celebration— Fere-Champenoise,   France 56 

Celebration— Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia...  64 

Celebration— San  Francisco,  Cal. 74 

Celebration — Boston,  Mass 80 

General  Pershing  at  Tomb  of  Lafayette 92 


The  Lafayette  Day  National  Committee  was  or- 
ganized in  the  early  part  of  August  1915.  Its  mem- 
bership remained  the  same  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Choate  this  year,  when  Dr.  Henry  van  Dyke  was  in- 
vited to  fill  the  vaoancy  thereby  created.  No  other 
change  has  occurred  in  the  membership  of  the  Com- 
mittee since  its  creation. 

The  Committee  issued  its  first  call  in  August  1915 
for  the  celebration  on  September  6th  of  that  year  of  the 
one  hundred  and  fifty-eighth  anniversary  of  the  birth 
of  the  famous  hero  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the 
first  anniversary  of  the  victory  won  in  1914,  thanks 
to  which  liberty  still  endures  in  the  world.  That  first 
call  being  addressed  to  the  press  at  large  resulted  in 
many  leading  articles  being  published  throughout  the 
country  urging  the  observance  of  an  anniversary 
doubly  sacred  in  the  annals  of  freedom. 

In  its  second  call  issued  on  July  14th,  1916  the  Com- 
mittee, renewing  its  appeal  to  the  press,  added  a  re- 
quest that  patriotic  societies  arrange  for  the  holding 
of  suitable  exercises  on  Lafayette  Day  in  our  principal 
cities.  Such  exercises  were  held  in  1916  in  New  York, 
Boston,  Washington,  Fall  River,  Providence,  New  Or- 
leans, San  Francisco  and  Tacoma,  Washington.  His 
Excellency  the  French  Ambassador  Mr.  Jusserand, 
after  participating  with  the  Governor  of  Massachu- 
setts, the  senior  senator  of  the  United  States  for  the 
Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  and  others  in  the  in- 
auguration of  the  Statue  of  Lafayette,  at  Fall  River, 
was  the  guest  of  the  City  of  New  York  on  Lafayette 
Day,  being  officially  greeted  on  behalf  of  the  City  by 
Hon.  Frank  L.  Dowling,  acting  mayor,  when  he  spoke 
at  the  exercises  held  in  the  Aldermanic  Chamber  of  City 
Hall.  The  other  speakers  on  that  occasion  were  his 
colleague  Hon.  William  Graves  Sharp,  American  Am- 

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bassador  to  France,  Hon.  Robert  Bacon  and  Dr.  John 
Finley,  Hon.  Alton  B.  Parker  presiding  as  chairman  of 
the  exercises.  Those  who  attended  this  first  official 
celebration  of  Lafayette  Day  in  New  York  will  long  re- 
tain a  recollection  of  the  spontaneous  outburst  of  enthu- 
siasm which  marked  the  peroration  of  Mr.  Bacon  when, 
addressing  the  French  Ambassador,  he  repeated  to 
him  the  words  spoken  by  Rochambeau  to  Washington : 
'^Entre  vous,  entre  nous,  a  la  vie,  a  la  morf ;,  and  of 
the  cheers  which  greeted  that  passage  of  the  French 
Ambassador's  address  in  which,  reminding  the  audi- 
ence that  Lafayette  had  designed  the  tricolor  of 
France,  he  said:  ^*It  is  the  flag  of  Valmy,  the  flag  of 
the  Marne,  the  flag  of  Verdun.'' 

A  valuable  feature  of  the  celebration  in  New  York 
this  year  as  well  as  last  year  was  provided  by  the 
banquet  given  by  the  France-America  Society  acting 
in  co-operation  with  the  Lafayette  Day  Citizens  Com- 
mittee of  New  York  for  the  purposes  of  the  local  cele- 
bration there.  The  address  of  the  French  Ambassador 
at  the  banquet  last  year  formed  part  of  the  account  of 
the  Lafayette  Day  celebration  published  by  this  Com- 
mittee. His  address  at  this  year's  banquet  will  be 
found  in  this  book. 

The  call  issued  this  year  appears  on  the  next  page. 
Mr.  Choate  among  his  last  activities,  presided  at  the 
Committee's  meeting  May  1st,  1917,  at  which  it  was 
determined  to  issue  that  call.  His  regretted  death  oc- 
curing  one  month  thereafter,  was  the  first  great  loss 
this  country  was  called  upon  to  face  in  the  cause,  now 
made  its  own,  of  France  and  of  Freedom.  As  is  well 
known,  he  gave  unsparingly  his  energy  and  strength 
to  every  aspect  of  those  imperative  duties  of  this  fate- 
ful hour  among  which  he  numbered  this  one  also. 
The  Committee  takes  pride  in  having  been  associated 
with  him  in  this  phase  of  his  earnest  work. 

December,  1917. 


LAFAYETTE  DAY  1917 


Call   issued    by    the    Lafayette    Day   National    Conv- 
mittee  July  14th,  1917, 

That  the  nation  may  celebrate  this  year,  as  it  did 
last  year  and  in  1915,  the  anniversary  of  Lafayette's 
birth,  September  6th,  1757,  the  undersigned  again  com- 
mend the  opportunity  thus  afforded  to  honor  the  mem- 
ory and  commemorate  the  deeds  of  one  of  the  noblest 
heroes  of  the  American  Revolution,  thanks  to  whose 
efforts  France's  sympathy  for  the  cause  of  freedom 
was  given  effective  expression  at  a  crucial  period  of 
the  struggle  for  American  Independence.  In  each  of 
the  last  two  years  the  press  at  large  has  contributed 
to  the  ever-renewed  patriotic  interest  of  our  people  in 
the  personality  and  achievements  of  Lafayette  by 
means  of  leading  articles  published  on  or  near  the  day 
of  the  anniversary  and  it  is  hoped  it  will  do  so  again 
this  year;  and  municipalities  acting  with  the  co-opera- 
tion of  patriotic  societies  are  urged  to  hold  suitable 
exercises  upon  that  day,  as  was  done  last  year  in  a 
number  of  our  principal  cities,  many  of  which  possess 
monuments  in  honor  of  Lafayette. 

Issuing  this  call  on  July  14th,  when  France  com- 
memorates her  struggle  for  liberty  we  are  not  unmind- 
ful that  by  honoring  Lafayette  upon  his  anniversary, 
a  date  made  doubly  memorable  by  the  Battle  of  the 
Marne,  we  shall  be  giving  expression  to  the  sentiment 
of  fraternal  regard  for  our  sister  republic,  our  ally  of 
old  and  of  to-day,  which  exists  among  all  elements  c-f 
our  people. 

Theodore  Roosevelt  (N.  Y.) 

George  W.  Wickersham  " 

George  Haven  Putnam  " 

V^illiam  D.  Guthrie 

Judson  Harmon  (Ohio) 

Myron  T.  Herrick 

Charles  Stewart  Davison  (N.  Y.)  Hon:  Sec: 

Maurice  Leon  "          Rec.  Sec; 


Charles  W.  Eliot 

(Mass.) 

Moorefield  Storey 

« 

'Joseph  H.  Choate 

(N.  Y.) 

Henry  van  Dyke 

(N.J.) 

Henry  Watterson 

(Ky.) 

Charles  J.  Bonaparte 

(Md.) 

Caspar  F.  Goodrich 

(Conn.) 

W.  R.  Hodges 

(Mo.) 

Charles  P.  Johnson 

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Report  in  extenso  of 

Lafayette    Day    Exercises 

Held  at  the 

Aldermamc  Chamber  of  City  Hall,  New  York 

September  6, 1917,  3  P.  M. 

Present  His  Honor  the  Mayor,  Hon.  Henry  van 
Dyke,  D.  C.  L.,  Dr.  John  H.  Finley,  James  Stillman, 
Esq.,  honorary  president,  Hon.  Willard  Bartlett,  chair- 
man, the  officers  and  members  of  the  Lafayette  Day 
Citizens'  Committee  and  the  following  Guests  of 
Honor: 

France:  Mr.  Andre  Tardien,  High  Commissioner  of 
the  French  Republic;  Mr.  Franklin  Bouillon,  mem- 
ber of  the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies,  delegate 
of  the  Interallied  Parliamentary  Commission; 
Colonel  Claudon  of  the  French  General  Staff;  Com- 
mander de  Blanpre,  French  Naval  Attache ;  Lieut. 
Legastellois. 

Mr.  Gaston  Liebert,  Consul  General  of  France; 
Mr.  Nettement,  Consul  and  Mr.  S.  d'Halewyn, 
Vice-Consul  of  France. 

Mr.  Maurice  Casenave,  Minister  Plenipotentiary; 
Mr.  Gaston  de  Pellerin  de  Latouche;  Mr.  Daniel 
Blumenthal,  former  Mayor  of  Colmar,  Alsace-Lor- 
raine ;  Commandant  Stef  anik ;  Marquis  de  Polignac. 

Belgium:  Lieutenant  General  Leclercq  and  Major 
Osterrieth  of  the  Belgian  Military  Mission. 

British  Empire:  Commander  Arthur  T.  Blackwood,  of 
the  Royal  Navy  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland; 
Lieut.  Colonel  Campbell  Stuart,  of  the  Canadian 
Army;  C.  Clive  Bayley,  Esq.,  British  Consul  Gen- 
eral. 

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Address  by  Hon.  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman 

Russia:  Colonel  V.  V.  Oranovsky  and  Lieut.  N.  N. 
Smirnoff,  of  the  Russian  Military  Mission;  M.  Mi- 
chel Oustinoff,  Russian  Consul  General. 

Italy:  Colonel  Bindo  Binda,  Lieutenants  Mario  Pas- 
quali,  Elmo  de  Paoli,  Giuseppe  Coppola  and  Ugo 
Spinola,  of  the  Italian  Army. 

Brig.  General  Eli  D.  Hoyle,  U.  S.  A. 

Commanding  Eastern  Division 

Col.  W.  A.  Simpson,  U.  S.  A. 

Rear  Admiral  N.  R.  Usher,  U.  S.  N. 

Commandant  Navy  Yard 
Lt.  Com.  J.  W.  Wilcox,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N. 

These  guests  had  been  met  lat  the  Bar  Association 
Building,  West  44th  Street,  by  the  Reception  Commit- 
tee, which  accompanied  them  to  City  Hall,  attended  by 
an  escort  of  motor-cycle  police.  The  City  was  pro- 
fusely decorated  with  flags,  particularly  along  the 
route  followed  by  the  party.  City  Hall  was  suitably 
decorated  for  the  occasion;  the  decoration  of  the 
Aldermanic  Chamber  centered  about  Morse's  portrait 
of  Lafayette  which  had  been  placed  over  the  platform. 
As  the  guests  entered,  the  ''Marseillaise''  was  played. 

Opening  Address 

Hon.  Willaed  Baktlett  (Chairman);  Before  en- 
tering upon  the  exercises  it  is  my  duty  and  pleasure 
to  thank  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  for 
the  use  of  this  beautiful  chamber.  Without  his  con- 
sent we  should  not  be  here. 

We  are  assembled,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  to  com- 
memorate the  patriotic  virtues  of  one  of  the  noblest 
characters  in  American  history.  Rudyard  Kipling,  in 
the  title  of  his  splendid  recessional,  has  given  expres- 

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Address  by  Eon.  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman 

sion  to  the  spirit  of  such  an  occasion  as  this:  **Lest 
We  Forget 'M    We  are  gathered  here  on  this  afternoon 

,M  the  early  autumn  in  the  year  1917  ^4est  we  forget*' 

]  the  old-time  friendship  between  France  and  America 
j  which  began  with  the  coming  of  Lafayette  to  this  coun- 
•^try  in  the  yearTTTTT  We  are  here  ^'lest  we  forgef 
how  that  friendship  was  maintained  by  the  military 
and  naval  assistance  which  the  infant  nation  received 
from  Eochambeau  on  the  land  and  from  DeGrasse  on 
the  sea.  And  we  are  here  most  of  all  *4est  we  forget" 
the  help  which  Lafayette  gave  to  the  Americans  on 
that  day  when  they  needed  help  indeed;  and,  as  the 
call  for  this  meeting  has  indicated  to  you,  we  are  here 
to  commemorate  another  anniversary,  the  anniversary 
of  an  event  which  occurred  three  years  ago  in  the  once 
beautiful  Valley  of  the  Marne,  an  event  which  we  cele- 
brate with  all  the  more  enthusiasm  because  today 
American  bayonets  flash  in  the  sunlight  of  France,  and 
those  who  carry  them  march  side  by  side  with  the 
French  and  British  soldiery  against  the  foe,  not  only 
of  France  and  Britain,  but  the  foe  of  civilization. 
(Applause.) 

Guests  whom  we  delight  to  honor  have  come  to 
participate  with  us  in  this  service  of  commemoration, 
and  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  whose  proud 
privilege  it  is  to  preside  over  the  destinies  of  this  great 
municipality  at  perhaps  the  most  interesting  period  in 
its  existence,  will  now  welcome  these  guests  in  your 
behalf.    (Applause.) 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  I  have  the  pleasure  of  pre- 
senting— ^I  need  not  introduce  him — ^Mayor  Mitchel. 
(Applause.) 


[6] 


Address  by  Mayor  Mitchel 

M.  Tardieu,  High  Commissioner  of  the  French  Re- 
public; gentlemen  of  France,  distinguished  guests  rep- 
resenting the  nations  allied  with  us  in  this  war,  and 
ladies  and  gentlemen:  America  ever  rejoices  at  the 
opportunity  to  honor  the  memory  of  Lafayette.  The 
City  of  New  York,  as  a  patriotic  community  of  this 
country,  as  the  city  that  received  Lafayette  upon  his 
return  to  the  United  State,  welcomes  indeed  the  oppor- 
tunity afforded  today  of  receiving  these  representatives 
of  France  whom  come  to  join  us  in  this  celebration  of 
the  birthday  of  the  great  benefactor  of  our  country, 
sent  to  us  by  France.     (Applause.) 

It  is  fitting,  it  seems  to  me,  that  this  room,  which 
has  received  in  succession  the  Missions  sent  from 
France,  from  Great  Britain,  from  Italy,  from  Russia 
and  from  Belgium, — this  room  in  which  the  welcome 
of  the  people  of  New  York  has  been  extended  to  these, 
our  Allies,  should  be  the  place  where  today  we  celebrate 
the  birthday  of  the  man  who  came  to  us  from  France 
to  lend  his  arm,  his  name  and  his  prestige  to  the  cause 
of  human  liberty,  represented  by  the  thirteen  colonies 
in  that  day. 

It  is  one  of  those  extraordinary  accidents  of  Fate 
that  on  the  birthday  of  Lafayette,  who  did  so  much  to 
secure  the  liberty  and  independence  of  the  people  of 
the  United  States,  there  should  have  been  fought  out 
upon  the  soil  of  France  the  battle  which  was  to  de- 
termine, not  alone  the  liberties  of  France,  not  alone 
the  liberties  of  the  self-governing  nations  of  Europe, 
but  which  we  confidently  believe  determined  also  the 
maintenance  of  the  liberties  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States.  (Applause.)  Because,  gentlemen,  we  recognize 
today  that  had  your  ,2:reat  Marshal  Joffre  failed  to  stop 
them  at  the  Marne,  the  onward  march  of  autocracy 
would  not  have  been  stayed  by  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  but 
the  people  of  this  country,  to  maintain  the  institutions 

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Address  by  Mayor  Mitchel 

of  free  govemment  that  they  have  builded  up,  and  to 
protect  their  homes  and  their  persons  and  their  liberty 
and  property,  would  have  been  compelled  to  fight  out 
here  the  battles  that  are  now  being  fought  out  in 
France  and  along  the  Western  front  and  Eaatem 
fronts  in  Europe.  (Applause.) 

And  so,  we  make  acknowledgement  today,  not  only 
of  the  great  services  of  Lafayette,  not  only  of  the  debt 
that  we  owe  to  him  and  to  the  men  of  France  who  came 
here  in  those  days  to  serve  with  the  people  of  the  Unit- 
ed States  in  our  cause,  but  the  debt  that  we  owe  today 
for  this  new  service  to  our  country  that  has  been  ren- 
dered by  the  great  Eepublic  that  you  represent.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

Gentlemen,  when  your  War  Commission  and  the 
others  did  this  city  the  honor  to  visit  it,  I  took  occasion 
to  point  out  that  America,  in  rallying  all  of  her  re- 
sources to  the  prosecution  of  this  war,  in  calling  upon 
her  young  men  to  go  into  these  concentration  camps 
and  prepare  themselves  for  service,  in  sending  them 
across  the  seas  to  take  their  places  with  the  soldiers 
of  your  nations  in  this  war,  was,  as  far  as  France  is 
concerned  at  least,  returning  only  something  of  the 
benefit  that  we  received  in  those  days  at  the  hands 
of  France.  (Applause.)  Our  troops  go  there,  of  course, 
to  fight  the  battle  of  human  liberty,  to  protect  the  in- 
stitutions of  self-government,  to  insure  that  small  na- 
tions shall  be  safe  against  aggression  and  conquest 
by  the  mighty,  but  they  go  there  too,  I  submit,  to  dis- 
charge a  part  of  this  debt  that  America  owes  to  France, 
and  they  go  gladly  for  that  reason  as  well  as  for  the 
others.  (Applause.) 

Gentlemen,  we  are  all  engaged  in  a  mighty  under- 
taking, the  greatest  that  the  civilized  world  has  ever 
seen.  These  nations  that  you  represent  and  our  na- 
tion are  banded  together  to  see  that  democracy,  that 
self-government,  that  human  liberty  shall  not  perish 

[8] 


Reading  of  Messages  hy  Mr.  Leon 

from  the  earth.  America  has  resolved  to  see  this 
struggle  to  its  ultimate  conclusion  and  to  victory. 
(Applause.) 

Many  of  you  in  Washington  or  here  in  the  City  of 
New  York  have  seen,  first  the  men  of  the  National 
Gruard  contributed  by  the  City  of  New  York  to  the 
government  service  march  through  our  streets  ac- 
claimed by  all  our  people,  and  a  few  days  later  you 
have  seen  the  men  called  under  the  draft  to  the  coun- 
try's colors  march  by,  smiling,  cheerful,  ready,  willing. 
These  things  contain  promise  for  the  future;  they 
mean  that  the  people  of  the  United  States  will  not 
falter,  that  they  have  deliberately  undertaken  to  dis- 
charge a  great  duty,  and  that  there  will  be  no  stop,  no 
cessation,  no  hesitation,  until  that  duty  is  completely 
discharged  and  until  victory  has  come  to  the  Allied 
arms.  (Applause.) 


The  Chaikman:  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  we  have 
received  a  number  of  letters  from  those  who  are  in 
sympathy  with  the  objects  of  this  gathering,  but  whose 
bodily  presence  is  necessarily  withheld.  Our  accom- 
plished and  indefatigueable  Eecording  Secretary,  Mr. 
Leon,  will  now  kindly  read  for  us  all  but  one  of  these 
letters. 

Reading  of  Messages  by  MR.  LEON 

The  first  message  is  from  the  President  of  the 
French  Republic:  (Applause.) 

**I  beg  you  to  assure,  on  my  behalf,  the  New 
York  Committee  of  Lafayette  Day  of  the  heartiest 
sympathy  with  which  I  associate  myself  with  the 
imposing  manifestation  which  has  been  organized 
to  commemorate  the  unforgettable  date  of  the 


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Beading  of  Messages  by  Mr.  Leon 

sixth  of  September.  By  rendering  homage  to  the 
heroes  of  former  times  and  those  who  have  re- 
cently given  their  lives  for  the  same  sacred  cause, 
France  and  the  United  States  consecrate  once 
more  their  ancient  and  unbreakable  friendship/' 
^^Poincare"  (Applause.) 

The  next  message  is  from  Marshal  Joffre:    (Ap- 
plause.) 

''As  in  the  great  days  of  Lafayette,  the  United 
States  and  France  have  once  more  joined  together 
heart  and  soul  in  the  defence  of  justice  and  liberty. 
The  two  sister  republics  are  combining  their  ef- 
forts for  the  triumph  of  a  common  cause.  La- 
fayette, inspired  by  a  spirit  of  splendid  generosity, 
gave  soul  and  sword  to  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  then  fighting  for  their  independence.  La- 
fayette symbolized  the  youth  of  France,  with  her 
eternal  love  of  heroism.  Today  the  entire  Amer- 
ican nation  rises  with  an  irresistable  might  against 
the  Germanic  oppression.  The  lofty  ideas,  in  de- 
fence of  which  French  blood  flowed  in  America, 
demand  new  sacrifices,  this  time  on  the  soil  of 
France.  As  at  Yorktown,  victory  will  crown  our 
efforts  and  the  brotherly  spirit  which  united  the 
companions  of  Lafayette  with  their  American 
allies  will  assure  the  triumph  of  our  united  armies 
for  the  independence  of  the  world.''    (Applause.) 

The   next   message   is   from   His    Excellency,   the 
French  Ambassador,  M.  Jusserand:  (Applause.) 

**  Hearty  greetings  to  the  faithful  admirers  of 
the  defender  of  liberty  in  the  two  worlds.  Nothing 
short  of  my  commemorating  his  birthday  in  a 
place  as  sacred  for  him  as  for  us — that  is.  Inde- 
pendence Hall,  Philadelphia, — ^could  prevent  me 

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Reading  of  Messages  by  Mr.  Leon 

from  being  with  you  this  year.  As  long  as  liberty 
shall  endure  in  this  world,  so  long  will  Lafayette  *s 
memory  be  blessed. 

Jusserand,  French  Ambassador. '^  (Applause.) 

The  next  message  is  from  General  Pershing:  (Ap- 
plause.) 

''On  this,  the  third  anniversary  of  the  Battle 
of  the  Marne,  the  Americans  in  France  unite  with 
you  at  home  in  honoring  the  name  of  Lafayette. 
His  services  for  the  cause  of  democracy  are  charac- 
teristic of  the  great  nation  he  represented.  These 
same  qualities  inspire  the  French  people  of  our 
day  to  make  the  heroic  sacrifices  they  have  made 
during  the  present  world  war.*'  (Applause.) 

The  next  message  is  from  Ambassador  Sharp,  our 
Ambassador  to  France,  who  was  our  guest  last  year: 

''The  dual  celebration  throughout  America  of 
this  memorable  day  will  find  an  appreciative  re- 
sponse in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  France  as  a 
touching  evidence  of  our  sympathy,  admiration 
and  gratitude.  Lafayette  and  Joffre  I  With  what 
illustrious  names,  past  and  present,  may  the  cause 
of  democracy  conjure !  As  in  the  days  of  the  vic- 
tory of  the  Marne,  so  today  the  voice  of  France, 
with  a  courage  and  confidence,  calm  and  indomit- 
able, still  calls  her  sons  to  a  sacred  and  victorious 
sacrifice  in  the  world's  cause  of  liberty  and 
humanity.  Greater  and  more  illustrious  than 
the  warring  heroes  of  old,  they  battle,  not  for 
conquest  or  power,  for  the  defence  of  their  homes 
and  the  triumph  of  the  inalienable  right  of  a  free 
people.  I  rejoice  that  the  full  realization  of  the 
vital  principles  at  stake  and  of  the  far-reaching 
consequences  of  the  outcome  has  brought  the  unit- 
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Reading  oj  Message  by  Commander  Blackwood 

ed  support  of  liberty-loving  America  to  the  side 
of  valiant  France  and  her  Allies. 

William  G.  Sharp."  (Applause.) 

President  Butler  of  Columbia  says: 

**  America,  old  and  young,  turns  toward  France 
and  the  memories  and  achievements  which  the 
name  of  France  recall  with  a  genuine  enthusiasm 
and  affection  that  are  difficult  to  describe  in 
words.  The  noble  spectacle  of  the  French  Eepub- 
lic  defending,  not  only  its  own  life  and  integrity, 
but  the  cause  of  human  liberty  for  three  long 
years  on  the  firing  line  of  unexampled  difficulty 
and  furore,  is  already  a  beacon  light  in  history. 
To  dwell  upon  all  that  France  is  and  all  that 
France  means  to  the  United  States  and  to  the 
world,  is  to  gain  new  strength  for  the  stern  duties 
and  obligations  of  our  own  national  and  inter- 
national life."    (Applause.) 


The  Chaikman:  I  told  you  that  our  Secretary 
would  read  all  the  messages  we  had  received  but  one. 
That  one  is  from  Admiral  Sir  David  Beatty,  of  the 
High  Seas  Fleet  of  Great  Britain.  The  British  Navy 
is  represented  here  today  by  a  number  of  officers, 
among  whom  is  Commander  Arthur  T.  Blackwood,  and 
he  has  kindly  consented,  at  our  request,  to  read  this 
message. 

Commander  Blackwood:  Mr.  Chairman,  ladies  and 
gentlemen:  The  message  from  Admiral  Sir  David 
Beatty,  commanding  the  British  Grand  Fleet: 

**The  Grand  Fleet  send  their  greetings.  We 
welcome  warmly  the  co-operation  of  the  gallant 
navy  of  the  United  States  of  America  as  a  sign 
and  guarantee  of  mutual  determination  to  win 
final  and  complete  victory  over  piracy  on  sea  and 
land."  (Applause.) 

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Address  by  Hon.  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman 

When  I  accepted  the  courteous  invitation  of  the  \ 
Committee  to  preisde  on  this  occasion,  I  did  not  sup-  I 
pose  I  should  be  expected  to  do  more  than  introduce  | 
the  several  distinguished  speakers;  but  the  program 
calls  for  an  address  by  the  Chairman,  and  I  cannot 
treat  our  program  as  a  ' '  scrap  of  paper"  in  any  respect. 
I  will  fulfill  its  promise,  therefore,  so  far  as  the  Chair- 
man is  concerned  by  calling  your  attention  for  a  mo- 
ment to  what  seems  to  me  to  have  been  the  most  sig- 
nificant feature  in  the  career  of  Lafayette.  I  mean  his 
life-long  devotion  to  the  cause  of  constitutional  liberty. 
It  is  true  that  when  we  think  of  Lafayette  we  gen- 
erally think  of  him  in  his  character  as  a  military  man!" 
We  see  him  commissioned  by  Congress  as  a  Major- 
General  in  the  Army  of  the  United  States  at  the  age 
of  twenty  years ;  we  see  him  a  few  months  thereafter 
wounded  on  the  battlefield  and  in  spite  of  his  wound, 
endeavoring  to  rally  his  troops  in  the  disastrous  en- 
gagement on  the  Brandywine;  we  see  him  still  later 
eluding  the  pursuit  of  Cornwallis  with  a  vastly  supe- 
rior force,  in  the  Carolinas  after  the  Battle  of  the 
Cowpens ;  and  we  see  him  side  by  side  with  Alexander 
Hamilton  leading  one  of  the  assaulting  parties  at  the 
siege  of  Yorktown.  In  subsequent  years  after  his  re- 
turn to  France,  upon  the  fall  of  the  Bastile,  we  find 
him  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  National  Guarr^ 
in  Paris ;  then  at  the  head  of  one  of  the  French  Armies 
in  the  field  winning  successive  victories  for  his  coun- 
.  try;  until  finally  the  Eeign  of  Terror  compelled  him  to 
^ relinquish  his  command  and  become  a  fugitive  and 
\for  five  years  a  captive  in  an  Austrian  military  prison. 
\[  will  not  attempt  to  trace  his  military  career  any 
further;  but  the  point  which  I  desire  to  emphasize  is 
that  in  all  places  and  at  all  seasons,  he  adhered  to  the 

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Address  by  Hon,  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman 

doctrine  that  liberty  could  not  be  established  or  pre- 
served except  under  the  sanction  of  law;  and  in  the 
assertion  of  this  principle  he  sacrificed  his  personal 
interests  and  his  military  ambitions,  time  and  time 
again,  during  his  long  career.  The  great  lesson  that 
liberty  and  law  are  inseparable  has  not  been  learned 
by  the  whole  world  yet.  It  is  being  taught,  let  us  hope, 
sucessfully,  in  republican  Eussia  today. 

Looking  back  over  thirty-three  years  of  judicial 
service  to  my  State,  I  feel  a  peculiar  pleasure, — I  might 
almost  call  it  professional, — in  joining  with  you  on  this 
occasion  in  the  celebration  of  this  double  anniversary, 
- — the  hirth  of  Lafayette  and  the  Battle  of  the  Mame. 
Lafayette  realized  that  the  supremacy  of  a  fundamen- 
tal body  of  law  proceeding  from  the  people  was  essen- 
tial to  the  liberty  of  a  nation.  In  the  same  spirit,  we 
realize  that"*"thF  otrserVance  of  international  law  is 
essential  to  the  preservation  of  liberty  throughout  the 
world.  The  nations  that  are  fighting  the  German  Gov- 
ernment today  are  fighting  for  the  supremacy  of  inter- 
national law,  and  are  determined  that  it  shall  prevail. 
It  is,  therefore,  peculiarly  incumbent  upon  every 
lawyer  and  jurist  to  aid  our  brothers  in  arms  by  grati- 
tude for  the  glorious  past  and  encouragement  for  what 
we  hope  will  be  a  glorious  future.  For  these  reasons, 
I  am  glad  to  be  here,  and  I  thank  you. 

Having  now  discharged  the  first  duty  imposed  upon 
me  by  the  program,  I  will  proceed  to  the  more  grateful 
function  of  introducing  the  speakers  who  have  kindly 
consented  to  address  you.  Those  of  you  who  have  at- 
tended college  commencements  where  honorary  de- 
grees are  conferred — may  have  observed  that  it  is  the 
habit  of  the  college  president,  when  he  hands  the  dis- 
tinguished recipient  his  degree,  to  briefly  characterize 
his  achievements  and  tell  what  sort  of  a  man  he  is. 
Now,  I  mean  to  make  my  introductions  short,  and  I 
have  concluded  to  adopt  the  same  system  in  introduc- 

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Address  hy  Hon.  Henry  van  Dyke,  D.  C.  L. 

ing  the  gentlemen  who  are  to  speak  to  you  this  after- 
noon; so  I  now  call  upon  Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  the 
distinguished  son  of  a  distinguished  father, — clergy- 
man, college  professor,  poet,  essayist,  Minister  to  Hol- 
land and  Luxemburg,  and  a  fisher  for  trout  and  a  fisher 
of  men,  equally  successful  in  both  capacities.  (Ap- 
plause.) 


THE  CHIVALRY  OF  LAFAYETTE 

Address  by  Hon.  Henky  van  Dyke,  D.  C.  L. 

In  the  great  Calendar  of  Freedom  September  sixth 
is  marked  with  a  star  to  commemorate  the  birth  of  a 
hero, — Gilbert  Motier  de  la  Fayette. 

He  was  one  of  Nature's  noblemen.  ^; 

He  was  a  legitimate  ^^Son  of  Liberty'';  dedicating 
his  youth  to  her  cause  in  a  far  land ;  spending  his  man- 
hood in  her  service  in  his  own  country;  and  standing 
fast  in  his  old  age,  undaunted  by  defeat,  wounds,  im- 
prisonment and  poverty,  uncorrupted  by  the  bribes 
and  blandishments  of  tyrants  whether  of  the  court  or 
of  the  mob,  unconquerably  loyal  to  his  ideal  of  free- 
dom secured  by  law  and  democracy  founded  on  justice. 

Eightly  has  his  birthday  been  marked  with  the 
hero-star.  But  today,  in  this  year  of  grace  and  fiery 
trial,  1917,  let  us  mark  it  with  a  double  star.  It  stands 
for  the  mutual  and  indissoluble  friendship  of  France 
and  America, — sealed^auJiirndxed-a^d-'^OT^y-yaaxs^^ 
with  French  blood  in  America, — resealed  and  ratified 
now  with  American  blood  in  France!  (Applause.) 

Yes,  let  us  mark  this  day  with  a  triple  star.  For 
now  the  British  forces,  which  the  Hanoverian  King 
George  III  and  his  fat-witted  Tory  ministry  had  ar- 
rayed against  us  on  the  field  of  Yorktown,  stand  with 
us  in  the  fight  for  the  world's  liberation  from  the  men- 
ace of  military  autocracy.    Long  since  has  that  battle 

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The  Chivalry  of  Lafayette 

which  Lafayette  and  the  French  helped  us  to  win 
against  the  Germanic  king  and  his  Hessian  mercen- 
aries borne  the  fruits  of  peace  with  victory.  Long 
since  has  England  realized  that  our  resistance  to  her 
monarch  was  a  defence  of  her  own  cause,  and  felt  the 
truth  of  Tennyson's  words: 

"What  wonder  if  in  noble  heat 
These  men  thine  arms  withstood, 
Retaught   the    lesson   thou   hadst   taught, 
And  in  thy  spirit  with  thee  fought]" 

Long  since  has  France  escaped  from  the  successive 
yokes  of  Bourbonism,  Sans-cullotism,  and  Napoleonism 
and  fulfilled  the  deferred  hope  for  which  Lafayette 
labored,  a  free  government  of  a  self-controlled  people. 
Mark  this  day  with  a  triple  star,  for  by  the  law  of 
nature  and  spiritual  affinity,  stronger  than  any  politi- 
cal alliance  or  dynastic  conspiracy,  a  three-fold  con- 
stellation has  formed  and  risen  in  the  international 
sky.  Along  the  banks  of  the  Yser  and  the  Somme, 
the  Aisne  and  the  Mouse,  above  the  heroes  who  give 
their  lives  to  make  the  world  ^'safe  for  democracy", 
the  sun  of  this  day  sees  floating  side  by  side  the  Tri- 
color, the  Union  Jack  and  the  Stars  and  Stripes !  (Ap- 
plause.) 

It  would  be  superfluous  for  the  speaker  on  this 
occasion  to  describe,  even  in  outline,  that  well-known 
life  of  Lafayette  which  is  set  forth  in  his  ^'Memoirs'' 
and  in  the  biographies  by  Bayard  Tuckerman  and 
Charlemagne  Tower.  It  would  be  presumptuous  for 
him  to  try  to  add  to  those  glowing  eulogies  which  have 
been  pronounced  by  such  orators  as  Daniel  Webster, 
John  Quincy  Adams,  Edward  Everett,  Caleb  Cushing, 
and  only  last  year  in  this  assembly  by  John  Finley, 
and  by  that  beloved  Ambassador  Jusserand  (applause) 
who  has  done  more  than  any  man  since  Lafayette  to 
reveal  and  endear  France  to  us.  (Great  applause.) 
Only  one  line  is  left  open  to  me,  and  that  is  to  speai 

[16] 


Address  hy  Hon.  Henry  van  Dyke,  D.  C,  L. 

briefly  of  the  personal  qualities  of  this  hero,  which 
gave  especial  value  to  the  service  which  he  rendered 
to  our  country  and  to  his  own, — qualities  that  shine 
with  living  splendor  now  in  the  light  of  that  fiery  front 
which  stretches  from  Ypres  to  Belfort,  from  the  Tren- 
tino  to  the  gateway  of  Trieste.  (Applause.) 

Nothing  more  eloquent  has  been  said  of  Lafayette 
than  the  words  in  which  Charles  Fox,  pleading  for  the 
aid  of  England  to  rescue  him  from  an  Austrian  prison, 
described  him  to  the  British  Parliament  in  1796  as 
' '  that  noble  character  wh^ch_  will  f^Qurish.iii-iha  aaaak 
of  th^ world' 'and'live'in^jhe  veneration  of  posterity 
when  kings'^irTdTEe^rowns  th^y  wear  will_be^,}MLmOi^e 
regarded  than  the  dust  to  whicK  they  must  return '\ 
But  there  is  a  clearer  and  more  lumihous  vision  in 
what  Sainte-Beuve  wrote  in  1838:  *^I  believe  that  if 
Lafayette  had  lived  in  the  Middle  Ages  he  would  have 
been  what  he  was  in  our  own  times,  a  chevalier,  seek- 
ing still  in  his  own  way  the  triumph  of  the  Rights  of 
Man  under  the  sign  of  the  Holy  GraiP\  — 

Of  all  that  has  been  said  about  Lafayette  I  like  the  ^, 
words  of  Sainte-Beuve  best.  They  give  the  key-note  of  /^ 
the  character  which  we  desire  not  only  to  praise,  but 
also  to  understand.  He  was  a  true  knight  of  liberty, 
a  chevalier.  The  distinctive  glory  of  his  career  lay 
not  in  military  genius,  though  he  had  a  touch  of  it; 
nor  in  political  sagacity,  for  he  had  none  of  it.  The 
golden  secret  of  his  inestimable  service  to  America,  to 
France,  to  the  world,  lay  in  his  whole-hearted  chivalryr  " 

The  first  element  of  chivalry  is  enthusiasm,  a  flame 
in  the  soul,  a  great  love,  a  sovereign  passion. 

From  the  moment  when  young  Lafayette,  a  junior 
officer  in  the  French  Musketeers,  dining  with  his  com- 
mander in  the  garrison  of  Metz,  heard  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  a  brother  but  no  great  friend  of  George  III, 
tell  the  story  of  the  fight  for  freedom  in  America,  the 
heart  of  the  eighteen  year  old  boy,  to  use  his  own-- 

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The  Chivalry  of  Lafayette 

words,  ''enlisted";  the  knight  embraced  his  life-long 
quest. 

I  do  not  believe  that  he  fully  understood  it  then 
as  he  did  later  when  he  wrote:  ''This  was  the  last 
struggle  of  Liberty ;  its  defeat  would  have  left  it  with- 
out a  refuge  and  without  a  hope ' '.  No,-  in  that  first 
fine  impulse  of  devotion  there  was  less  reasoning  and 
more  instinct.  It  was  a  coup  de  foudre,  love  at  first 
sight.  But  it  was  real  enough  to  carry  him  through  a 
hundred  obstacles  to  the  accomplishment  of  his  fixed 
purpose  of  crossing  the  ocean  and  offering  his  sword 
to  America. 

Everything  was  against  him.  The  government  of 
France,  at  peace  with  England,  could  not  sanction  the 
expedition  of  a  great  French  nobleman  to  join  the 
•rebels.  He  wisely  forgot  to  ask  for  the  sanction.  His 
family  and  all  his  titled  friends  and  relatives,  (except 
his  noble  wife,  a  girl  of  seventeen,)  opposed  his  plan 
as  a  crazy  whim.  He  prudently  stopped  talking  about 
it  and  quietly  worked  at  it.  The  American  Commis- 
sioner in  Paris  who  had  at  first  accepted  his  offer  and 
promised  him  the  rank  of  major-general  in  the  Amer- 
ican forces,  now  discouraged  him  and  said  he  could 
provide  no  ship  for  the  voyage.  He  made  the  retort 
courteous  by  purchasing  a  ship  at  Bordeaux  with  his 
own  money  and  offering  a  passage  to  twelve  other 
French  officers.  The  timid  King,  alarmed  at  the  pos- 
sible consequences  of  the  action  of  this  rash  young 
man,  forbade  him  to  go,  and  issued  one  of  those  ter- 
rible lettres  de  cachet  against  him.  Lafayette  was 
arrested  and  virtually  a  prisoner.  He  escaped  in  dis- 
guise to  a  port  in  Spain,  where  his  ship  picked  him  up; 
and  after  a  most  sea-sick  voyage  of  fifty-four  days, 
landed  him  on  June  13,  1777,  in  a  wild  creek  on  the 
shore  of  South  Carolina,  where  he  groped  his  way  at 
midnight  to  the  door  of  a  plantation,  and  after  the 
dogs  had  barked  at  him,  he  was  received  by  the  owner, 

[18] 


Address  by  Hon.  Henry  van  Dyhe,  D.  C.  L. 

Major  Huger,  with  all  the  warmth  of  Southern  hospi- 
tality. 

None  of  these  experiences  damped  the  enthusiasm 
of  the  young  chevalier.  He  rejoiced  in  hardship. 
Everything  pleased  him  in  his  new  country.  He  wrote 
to  his  beloved  wife,  his  ''dear  heart' ^  in  rapturous 
strain,  of  the  beauty  of  the  land;  the  agreeable  sim- 
plicity of  the  people  among  whom  ' '  all  the  citizens  are 
brothers"  and  "the  richest  and  the  poorest  are  on  the 
same  social  level";  and  above  all  the  charm  of^  the  _ 
American  women  who  "are  very  beautiful,  unaffected  j 
in  manner,  and  of  a  charming  neatness".  Bravo,  chev- 
valier ! 

Arriving  in  Philadelphia,  after  a  slow  and  toilsome 
journey,  he  was  rather  coldly  received  by  members  of 
Congress,  who  were  at  that  time  surfeited  with  for- 
eign officers  of  minor  merit  who  demanded  high  com- 
mand and  pay.  But  Lafayette  was  of  another  type 
He  sent  a  frank  and  generous  address  to  Congress  i 
which  he  asked  only  two  favors:  "the  one  is,  to  serve 
without  pay,  at  my  own  expense ;  the  other  is  that  I  be 
allowed  to  serve  at  first  as  a  volunteer".  His  offer 
was  accepted,  a  commission  as  major-general  was 
granted  to  him,  and  he  was  assigned,  at  his  own  re- 
quest, to  the  staff  of  Washington,  henceforth  his 
adored  Chief. 

Thus  began  one  of  the  most  famous  and  perfect 
friendships  in  human  annals, — the  sublime  Washing- 
ton and  the  generous,  loyal  Lafayette.  Thus  America 
enrolled  in  the  imperishable  cause  of  Liberty  a  most 
noble,  perfect  knight, — a  man  so  brave  that  when  he 
was  wounded  at  Brandywine  he  fought  on  with  the 
blood  running  out  of  his  boots, — a  man  so  devoted  that 
he  refused  the  absolute  command  of  an  army  to  invade 
Canada  because  he  detected  in  the  offer  a  cabal  against 
his  Chief, — a  man  so  unselfish  that  he  resigned  the 
leadership  of  the  troops  to  another  at  Monm.outh  with- 

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The  Chivalry  of  Lafayette 

out  a  murmur  because  his  Chief  wished  it, — a  man  so 
courteous  that  he  neither  took  nor  gave  offense,  but 
was  always  smoothing  away  jealousies  and  strifes  be- 
tween other  officers,  as  he  did  at  Newport, — a  man  so 
steadfast  that  he  never  relaxed  his  efforts  until  the 
alliance  between  France  and  America  bore  full  fruit 
in  the  presence  of  the  French  fleet  and  the  French 
army  under  Rochambeau  at  Yorktown, — and  then,  a 
man  so  high-minded  that  he  would  not  advance  to  crush 
Comwallis  until  Washington  was  present  to  command 
the  final  victory. 

It  was  the  youthful  chivalry  of  this  man,  as  Count 

d'Estaing  said,  that  ^'so  happily  formed  the  first  bond 

/     of  union"  between  two  great  nations,  to  both  of  whom 

/       his  fame  now  belongs. 

^- — '  My  friends,  history  repeats  itself  before  our  eyes. 
When  the  mad  Potsdam  war-lords  struck  their  treach- 
erous blow  through  bleeding  Belgium  at  the  breast  of 
France,  in  August  1914,  the  young  heart  of  America 
** enlisted'^  in  her  cause, — the  sacred  cause  of  Liberty. 
In  the  air  and  in  the  ambulance,  in  the  trenches  and  in 
the  hospitals,  thousands  of  the  flower  of  our  youth 
sprang  to  her  service, — volunteers,  volunteers!  They 
asked  no  official  sanction;  they  disregarded  and  over- 
leaped all  obstacles;  they  were  mustered  by  enthu- 
siasm and  enrolled  by  devotion ;  they  gave  themselves 
as  a  true  knight  lays  his  gift  at  his  lady's  feet  Write 
the  names  of  Victor  Chapman,  Richard  Hall,  Alan 
Seeger  and  the  many  young  heroes  who  followed  them 
on  the  road  to  glorious  death,  in  the  roll  of  that  order 
of  chivalry  which  is  headed  by  the  name  of  Lafayette. 
Write  also  the  names  of  those  brave  boys, — yes,  and 
girls  too, — whom  danger  spared,  as  it  spared  him,  and 
who  live  on  as  he  lived  to  serve  the  undying  cause  of 
freedom.     (Applause.) 

Let  us  not  forget  the  peculiar  and  inestimable  value 
of  just  such   chivalry.     Even  as  Lafayette's  *'beau 

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Address  by  Hon.  Henry  van  Dyke,  D.  C,  L, 

geste ' '  was  a  powerful  and  steady  influence  in  bringing 
France  to  our  side  in  tliat  first  struggle,  so  the  example 
of  our  heroic  youth  has  been  of  great  avail  among  the 
potent,  constant  causes  which  have  brought  America 
to  her  inevitable  place  in  this  last  fight  for  democracy 
against  tyranny.  The  eloquent  words  in  which  Presi- 
dent Wilson  aimounced  the  participation  of  our  coun- 
try with  France  and  Great  Britain  in  this  war,  repeat 
and  reverberate  the  very  principles  which  Lafayette 
voiced  a  hundred  times  and  in  which  he  lived  and  died. 

Eemember  also,  and  especially  at  this  hour,  the 
chivalrous  tenacity  with  which  he  kept  his  faith.  He 
came  to  us  at  the  darkest  time  of  our  early  history. 
The  defeat  of  Long  Island  had  put  Washington's  army 
to  flight.  The  ragged  Continentals  were  freezing  in 
their  refuge  at  Valley  Forge.  The  defenders  seemed 
unable  to  drive  the  invaders  out,  and  the  invaders  un- 
able to  catch  the  defenders.  It  looked  like  a  drawn  bat- 
tle, a  stalemate.  Many  declared  the  struggle  vain,  and 
cried  out  for  a  conference,  a  compromise,  a  peace  by 
arrangement.  But  Washington  knew  better  than  to 
dishoner  the  sacrifice  already  made  in  order  to  obtain 
a  counterfeit  of  the  thing  he  was  fighting  for.  La- 
fayette stood  with  him.  He  had  enlisted  not  for  a 
campaign,  but  for  the  war.  The  word  stalemate  was 
not  in  his  vocabulary.  The  words  that  stood  emblaz- 
oned there  were  first,  Victory;  then  Liberty;  then, 
Peace.  The  chosen  motto  on  his  coat-of-arms  was 
cur  non, — *'Why  not?"  and  the  spirit  of  his  life  was 
to  ^* fight  on''. 

ADSIT  OMEN !  May  his  example  be  prophetic.  In 
this  time  of  trial  the  faint-hearted  are  once  more  talk- 
ing of  a  drawn  battle,  and  the  fatuous  friends  of  a 
false  peace  are  calling  for  conference  and  compromise. 
Between  truth  and  treachery  there  can  be  no  confer- 
ence, between  democracy  and  autocracy  no  stalemate. 
There  is  but  one  thing  for  us  to  do:  fight  on  till  we 

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The  Chivalry  of  Lafayette 

reach  a  peace  worth  having.  The  President  has  just 
said  that  ''the  intolerable  wrongs  done  in  this  war  by 
the  furious  and  brutal  power  of  the  Imperial  German 
Government  ought  to  be  repaired''.  They  shall  be! 
He  has  pledged  our  country  ''to  exert  all  its  power 
and  employ  all  its  resources  to  bring  the  Government 
of  the  German  Empire  to  terms  and  end  this  war." 
We  shall  be  content  with  nothing  less !  When  that  is 
accomplished  we  shall  rejoice  with  France  and  Britain 
in  welcoming  peace, — not  a  peace  honorable  to  dishon- 
er,  but  a  peace  worth  having,  a  peace  that  will  be  good 
for  all  mankind.     (Applause.) 

The  task  which  you  have  laid  upon  me  for  this  day 
has  heen  but  imperfectly  fulfilled.  One  word  only  re- 
mains to  be  spoken.  Eemember,  I  pray  you,  that  the 
chivalry  of  Lafayette, — his  enthusiasm,  his  devotion, 
his  courage,  his  courtesy,  his  tenacity  of  noble  pur- 
pose,— is  the  embodiment  to  the  real  spirit  of  France. 
Dismiss  from  your  minds  the  silly  Berlin  talk  about 
a  decadent  race.  Dismiss  the  superficial  notion  of  a 
frivolous  and  fickle  people  which  tourists  have  gath- 
ered in  the  places  prepared  for  their  amusement.  Dis- 
miss even  the  mistaken  reports  of  down-hearted 
friends  who  speak  of  a  nation  already  "bled  white" 
and  ready  to  lie  down  and  die.  None  of  these  things 
are  true.  (Applause.)  I  know  the  "foyers",  the  homes 
of  France,  and  have  warmed  my  heart  at  the  fires  of 
love  and  loyalty  which  glow  there.  I  know  the  great 
schools  and  workshops  of  France  and  the  steady  in- 
dustry which  animates  them.  I  know  the  battlefront 
of  France. 

I  come  from  the  world-famous  fortress  of  Verdun, 
— its  citadel,  its  ruined  suburbs,  its  hospitals  bombed 
by  the  barbarous  Prussians,  its  far-flung  trenches  un- 
der fire.  No  drop  of  blood  that  falls  there  is  w^hite; 
it  is  all  red.  (Applause.)  No  man  who  fights  there  to 
defend  his  country  dreams  of  surrender  or  under- 

[22] 


Address  by  Hon.  Henry  van  Dyke,  D.  C.  L. 

stands  the  word  stalemate.  Serious,  cheerful,  fearless, 
indomitable,  officers  and  soldiers,  their  thoughts  are 
of  victory,  liberty,  peace.  The  word  with  which  they 
bade  me  farewell  was  the  immortal  phrase:  ^'On  les 
aura, — we  shall  get  them!''  (Applause.) 

THE  NAME  OF  FEANCE. 

Grive  us  a  name  to  fill  the  mind 
With  the  shining  thoughts  that  lead  mankind 
The  glory  of  learning,  the  joy  of  art, — 
A  name  that  tells  of  a  splendid  part 
In  the  long,  long  toil  and  the  strenuous  fight 
Of  the  human  race  to  win  its  way 
From  the  ancient  darkness  into  the  day 
Of  Freedom,  Brotherhood,  Equal  Eight, — 
A  name  like  a  star,  a  name  of  light, — 
I  give  you  France! 
(Applause.) 

Give  us  a  name  to  stir  the  blood 
With  a  w^armer  glow  and  a  swifter  flood, — 
A  name  like  the  sound  of  a  trumpet,  clear, 
And  silver-sweet,  and  iron-strong. 
That  calls  three  million  men  to  their  feet, 
Eeady  to  march,  and  steady  to  meet 
The  foes  who  threaten  that  name  with  wrong, — 
A  name  that  rings  like  a  battle-song, — 
I  give  you  France! 
(Applause.) 

Give  us  a  name  to  move  the  heart 
With  the  strength  that  noble  griefs  impart, 
A  name  that  speaks  of  the  blood  outpoured 
To  save  mankind  from  the  sw^ay  of  the  sword, — 
A  name  that  calls  on  the  world  to  share 
In  the  burden  of  sacrificial  strife 
When  the  cause  at  stake  is  the  world's  free  life 
And  the  rule  of  the  people  everywhere, — 
A  name  like  a  vow,  a  name  like  a  prayer, — 
I  give  you  France! 

(Great  applause.) 
[23] 


Address  hy  Dr.  Finley 

The  Chairman:  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  you  will 
now  have  the  pleasure  of  hearing  a  distinguished  edu- 
cator, economist,  historian  and  poet,  one  whose  rela- 
tions with  France  as  Harvard  Exchange  Lecturer  and 
whose  studies  on  the  French  discoverers  in  America 
make  his  presence  here  peculiarly  fitting.  We  welcome 
Dr.  John  H.  Finley.     (Applause.) 


Address  by  Dr.  Finley 

Mr.  Chairman,  Mr.  Mayor,  M.  Tardieu:  1 
should  use  all  of  your  titles  if  I  could  repeat  them 
as  accurately  as  my  excellent  French  men  and 
women  allies  of  France.  An  invitation  to  read  a  poem 
here  today  is  not  a  tribute  to  my  poetic  ability ;  it  is  a 
tribute  to  my  love  of  France.  It  was  assumed  by  the 
Committee  with  knowledge  that  if  the  Judge  who  has 
so  eloquently  presided,  and  the  Mayor  and  Dr.  Van 
Dyke,  were  to  speak  in  prose,  there  would  be  nothing 
worth  while  to  say  in  prose.  I  suppose  I  should  not 
have  been  asked  to  speak  in  verse,  if  I  had  been  asked 
at  all,  if  Dr.  Van  Dyke  had  been  asked  to  read  a  poem. 
But  now  since  he  has  spoken  both  in  prose  and  in  verse 
I  have  no  rhyme  nor  reason  for  speaking  upon  that 
subject  which  is  dear  to  me.  I  tried  to  say  last  year 
all  that  I  could  in  prose  and  in  verse.  I  read  these  lines 
simply  because  of  the  invitation  and  because  of  my 
love  for  France.  These  lines  do  not  speak  of  La- 
fayette; they  have  little  to  say  of  him;  nor  do  they 
have  much  to  say  of  Joifre, — perhaps  nothing. 

I  said  to  the  people  in  France  a  little  time  back, 
**We  understand  one  another,  though  we  do  not  under- 
stand each  other's  language'', — ^^at  any  rate  they  could 
not  understand  my  French.  I  said,  **In  America  M. 
Viviani  spoke  no  English,  and  yet  he  was  understood 

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Address  by  Dr.  Finley 

everywhere;  and  Marshal  Joffre  did  not  speak  at  all, 
and  yet  he  was  understood.    (Laughter  and  applause.) 

I  am  going  to  tell  of  a  land  which  is  called — which 
I  have  called,  at  any  rate — ''Every  Man's  Land''. 
It  is  that  little  strip  of  land,  or  ribbon,  across  the  north 
of  France,  running  from  Nieuport  down  to  Belfour, — 
that  little  strip  of  land  whose  boundaries  Marshal 
Joffre  had  a  part  in  determining.  It  was  not  far  from 
there,  as  Dr.  Van  Dyke  and  Judge  Bartlett  have  told 
us,  that  Lafayette  set  out.  It  was  only  an  hour  in  an 
automobile,  if  he  had  one  then,  from  Verdun  that  La- 
fayette enlisted ;  it  was  only  an  hour  by  aircraft  from 
the  Valley  of  the  Marne  that  he  enlisted,  and  he  passed 
through  that  valley  on  his  way  to  Paris  and  to  the 
coast  to  come  to  our  aid.  It  was  somewhere  in  that 
valley  that  I  saw  in  a  little  school,  written  upon  the 
blackboard,  two  names;  one  was  Washington  and  the 
other  was  Wilson.  I  sought  to  evoke  the  name  of 
Lafayette,  and  I  asked  the  boys,  ''Who  was  a  great 
friend  of  Washington!"  and  one  little  fellow  put  up 
his  hand  and  said  "Wilson".  Wilson  is  indeed  today, 
in  his  message,  our  Lafayette  to  France. 

If  these  lines  have  the  smell  of  oil  upon  them  I 
must  tell  you  in  advance  that  it  is  not  the  oil  which 
scholars  use;  it  is  the  oil  that  is  used  in  the  automo- 
bile ;  and  if  there  is  any  dust  upon  them,  it  is  not  the 
dust  of  the  bookshelf,  it  is  the  dust  that  has  blown  in 
the  ear  window;  and  I  think  a  bit  of  it  is  from  the 
Valley  of  the  Marne,  in  which  I  travelled  a  few  days 
back. 


[25] 


Address  by  Dr.  Finley 

EVERY  MAN'S  LAND 

{Le  Pays  de  Tout  Homme) 

By  John  Finley 

I 

There  *s  a  strip  of  the  Earth 
That's  of  infinite  worth, 

Though  a  craterous,  sterile  space ; 
Its  herder's  a  trench 
And  the  ground  of  it's  French, 

But  it's  leased  hy  the  human  race. 

II 

It  is  many  leagues  long. 
But  so  narrow,  a  song 

Can  span  with  a  quaver  this  strait ; 
Yet  when  Lucifer  fell 
From  high  Heaven  to  Hell 

No  farther  he  flew  to  his  fate. 

in 

No  loved  latitude's  line 
Does  this  region  define ; 

It  wanders  in  aimless  extent, 
Like  a  trickle  of  blood 
O'er  a  glohe  all  bestud 

With  landmarks  of  ancient  descent. 

IV 

By  the  World  it  is  tilled, 
And  its  acres  are  filled 

With  the  harrows  of  Moloch's  moil; 
While  the  myriad  mind 
Of  the  whole  human  kind 

Comes  daily  to  watch  its  grim  tof 

[26] 


Every  Man's  Land 


In  its  skies  are  no  birds, 
In  its  pastures  no  herds, 

Save  airplanes  and  tauben  and  tanks  j 
0  ^er  its  every  red  rood, 
The  cannon-clouds  brood, 

All  its  rivers  have  flowerless  banks. 

VI 

By  a  Pentecost  flame 
Is  lit  every  name 

From  Ypres  to  the  Vosgian  tarn; 
In  every  known  tongue 
Are  its  syllables  sung — 

Through  eveiy  man's  speech  runs  the  Mame. 

VII 

For  it's  *' Every  Man's  Land," 
And  every  man's  hand 

That  has  fought  for  Liberty  there 
Has  but  helped  clear  the  site 
For  the  temples  of  Right 

That  will  spring  in  its  valiant  air. 

VIII 

And  some  day  there  will  rise 
In  the  sight  of  men's  eyes 

A  Pantheon,  out  in  this  field, 
'Mid  the  iron-stained  clods 
Where  the  poilus,  grown  gods, 

The  spirit  of  France  have  revealed. 

IX 

And  with  it  will  stand 

In  this  ** Every  Man's  Land" 

(Not  no  man's  but  every  man's  ground) 
The  impregnable  walls 
Of  Delectable  Halls 

Where  Earth's  greatest  seers  wiU  be  found. 

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Address  by  M.  Tardieu 

X 

Where  every  land's  Youth 
Will  look  for  the  Truth 

At  the  end  of  the  planet's  wars; 
Where  blood-burgeoning  flowers 
Love-lingering  bowers 

Will  lift  at  their  luminous  doors. 

XI 
''Le  Pays  de  Tout  Homme'' 
By  the  Meuse  and  the  Somme 

We'll  love  thy  brave  soil  as  our  own; 
Thy  tenuous  thread 
Is  the  pledge  of  thy  dead 

That  Might  '^ shall  not  pass"  to  Earth's  throne. 

XII 

On  the  ruins  of  hates 
The  United  World  States 

Will  build  in  thy  trenches  their  fane 
To  a  Freedom,  world-wide, 
That  they  who  have  died 

Shall  not  one  have  perished  in  vain. 

(Applause) 


The  Chairman:  The  speaker  who  is  last  to  ad- 
dress you  is  a  representative  of  France  in  every  sense 
— a  legislator  at  home  and  the  head  of  the  French  Mis- 
sion here,  an  experienced  journalist  and  a  writer  on 
historical  subjects,  and  most  of  all  a  tried  soldier  whose 
valor  in  the  field  has  been  attested  by  the  tributes 
awarded  to  him  by  his  own  government.  It  gives  me 
great  pleasure  to  introduce  M.  Tardieu.     (Applause.) 


[28] 


Address    by    Mr.    Andre    Tardieu 
French  High  Commissioner 

M.  Taedieu  :  I  am  happy  to  have  been  able  to  ac- 
cept your  invitation  and  to  come,  on  behalf  of  the 
French  Eepublic's  Government,  in  order  to  bring  you 
the  fraternal  greetings  of  France  on  this  memorial  day 
in  which  the  most  glorious  recollections  of  our  own  and 
of  your  own  history  are  being  united. 

On  account  of  a  splendid  coincidence  we  are  to-day 
celebrating  two  commemorations. 

We  are  meeting  together  to  honor  the  memory  of 
Lafayette  upon  the  anniversary  of  his  birthday.  But 
to-day  is  also  the  day  when,  three  years  ago,  the  French 
armies,  after  retreating  for  two  weeks,  started  the 
offensive  of  the  Marne  and  began  this  heroic  battle  of 
six  days  duration  in  which  they  broke  to  pieces  the 
criminal  designs  of  the  enemy. 

Gentlemen,  three  years  ago, — allow  me  to  call  up 
again  this  bright  memory  from  my  past  as  a  soldier 
during  the  war — three  years  ago,  along  the  whole  front 
from  Paris  to  Verdun,  the  armies  of  France  were 
marching  forward,  and  the  fire  of  our  batteries  was 
opening  the  way  to  the  bayonets  of  the  infantrymen: 
civilization  was  saved.     (Applause.) 

During  three  years  since,  we  have  been  bearing 
without  giving  way,  without  flinching,  the  main  bur- 
den of  this  huge  and  awful  fight:  but  on  that  very  first 
day  of  the  battle  of  the  Marne,  the  main  decision  has 
been  won. 

Victory  of  liberty  against  autocracy,  of  right 
against  violence,  the  battle  of  the  Marne  made  possible 
the  long  endeavor  by  which  we  are,  since,  every  day, 
brought  nearer  to  victory;  the  battle  of  the  Marne  car- 
ried with  her  a  decision  in  the  history  of  mankind. 

Through  it,  all  the  principles  for  which  the  F.  S. 

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Address  by  M.  Tardieu 

have  been  living  and  for  which  they  are  now  ready  to 
fight,  have  been  made  safe  against  the  onslaught  of 
Grerman  brutality.  Through  it,  civilization  and  the 
freedom  of  the  peoples  have  been  saved  from  the  direst 
peril  by  which  they  were  ever  threatened  and  endan- 
gered. 

Thus,  Gentlemen,  from  century  to  century,  the  Ms^ 
tory  of  the  world,  again,  begins  anew.  Thus  is  moral 
conscience  meeting  the  great  eternal  issue  of  duty  and 
of  responsibility. 

When  Lafayette  came  over  to  put  his  sword  at  the 
service  of  your  new  born  liberties;  when  invaded 
France  gathered  her  energies  to  stop  the  foe;  when 
the  U.  S.  after  thirty-two  months  of  scrupulous  neu- 
trality, declared  war  upon  German  Imperialism — the 
same  question  was  answered  in  each  case,  a  question 
of  conscience,  a  question  of  duty,  a  question  of  respon- 
sibility. 

Gentlemen,  the  same  question  again  we  shall  have 
to  answer  when,  in  a  near  future,  after  the  victory  of 
our  arms,  we  will  be  called  to  work  towards  the  organi- 
zation of  the  world's  peace. 

Then,  in  the  same  way  as  we  are  doing  now,  we 
shall  remember  on  which  side  stood  the  crime,  on  which 
the  right,  and,  as  through  the  clear  conscience  of  the 
one  and  of  the  other,  our  arms  have  been  given 
strength,  so  shall  our  peace  aiming  decisions  be  given 
value. 

To  our  soldiers  who  have  been  fighting  through 
three  whole  years,  to  your  soldiers  who  are  soon  to 
fight  side  by  side  with  ours,  (applause),  let  us  go  on 
telling  steadily  again  and  again  why  they  are  fight- 
ing: let  us,  in  this  way,  keep  up  their  moral 
strength,  which  is  not  less  necessary  to  our  democra- 
cies than  material  strength,  let  us  remind  them  that 
there  has  been  in  Europe  a  nation  who,  though  enjoy- 
ing an  overfulness  of  all  the  riches  of  peace,  with  un- 

[30] 


Address  by  M.  Tardieu 

ceasing  guile,  planned  war,  willed  war  and  let  it  loose. 

Unceasingly  let  us  bring  back  to  our  memory  the 
years,  in  which  Germany  forced  war  upon  a  peace- 
willing  world  and  deliberately  doomed  millions  of 
young  lives  to  death. 

How  many  sacrifices,  though,  had  been  accepted 
by  all  the  neighbors  of  Germany  in  order  to  keep 
peace. 

In  order  to  keep  that  peace  which  they  deemed  to 
be  the  most  precious  of  their  possessions,  the  Kussians 
had  allowed  the  annexation  of  Bosnia  &  Herzegovina 
by  Austria  Hungary  to  take  place,  the  French  had 
given  over  to  Germany  part  of  their  Congo  Colony. 
This  failed  to  satisfy  Germany.  Aggression  was  de- 
cided by  her. 

Day  after  day,  hour  after  hour,  she  prepared,  while, 
through  their  insufficient  preparations,  as  shown  at 
the  beginning  of  war,  her  present  adversaries  have  evi- 
denced how  deep,  how  generous  had  been  their  faith 
in  peace. 

And  whenever  the  Germans  should  be  bold  enough 
to  contradict  this  and  to  state  that  we  have  willed  war, 
let  us  answer  simply  by  quoting  facts,  and  let  us  point 
out,  in  August  1914,  Eussia  without  rifles,  France  with- 
out heavy  artillery  and  Great  Britain's  army  of  sir 
divisions. 

Gentlemen,  those  have  willed  war  who  had  not 
neglected  anything  which  would  enable  them  to  make 
war.  These  have  not  willed  war  who,  not  believing 
war  possible,  did  neglect  to  prepare. 

This  ought  to  be  restated  again  and  again,  if  we 
are  expecting  the  soldiers  on  the  battlefield  to  be 
clearly  conscious  of  fulfilling  the  most  sacred  duty. 

We  have  assembled  today  to  celebrate  the  memory 
of  the  great  man  who  volunteered  to  come  over  here 
and  to  fight  in  your  ranks  because  he  was  under  orders 
from  his  own  conscience.     Faithful  to  the  example 

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Address  hy  M.  Tardieu 

which  he  set  for  us,  let  us  now  declare  and  proclaim 
to  the  world  the  transparent  clearness  of  our  right. 

Let  us  fasten  the  culprit  to  his  own  crime,  and  as  he 
does  still  dare  to  ask  what  are  our  war  aims,  let  us 
answer,  as  did  Lafayette,  as  did  the  President  in  his 
last  message,  that  we  have  one  aim  only:  to  prevent 
any  possible  reiteration  of  the  crime  and  in  this  way^ 
to  lay  the  foundation  of  the  world's  peace.  (Applause.) 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  exercises,  the  *'Star 
Spangled  Banner"  was  played. 


[32] 


<U     <l> 


[33] 


On  the  steps  of  City  Hall,  New  York  after  the  Lafayette 

Day  exercises   on   the   afternoon   of 

September  6th,   1917. 

(Left  to  right) 

First  Row :  Geo.  T.  Wilson,  Admiral  Usher,  IT.  S. 
N.,  Judge  Willard  Bartlett,  Chairman  of  City  Hall 
Celebration,  Mr.  Andre  Tardien,  High  Commissioner 
of  the  French  Eepublic,  principal  guest  of  Honor, 
Mayor  Mitchel,  Gen.  Leclercq,  head  of  Belgian  Military 
Mission,  Commander  de  Blanpre,  French  Naval  At- 
tache, F.  B.  Stevenson  and  Mr.  Watkins. 

Second  Row:  Lieut.  Col.  Campbell  Stuart,  of  the 
Canadian  Army,  British  Military  Attache,  Comman- 
der  Blackwood,  British  Naval  Attache,  Borough  Pres. 
Marks,  Mr.  Gaston  de  Pellerin  de  Latouche,  Mr.  Mau- 
rice Casenave,  Mr.  Gaston  Liebert,  Consul  General  of 
France,  Marquis  de  Polignac,  Gen.  Hoyle,  Command- 
ing at  Governor's  Island,  Maurice  Leon,  Acting  Chair- 
man N.  Y.  Lafayette  Day  Committee,  Major  Osterrieth 
of  Belgian  Military  Mission,  S.  E.  Berton,  Col.  Oran- 
owsky  and  Lieut.  Smirnoff  of  the  Russian  Army. 

Third  Row :  G.  L.  LeBlanc,  C.  Clive  Bayley,  British 
Consul  General,  Col.  Claudon  of  French  General  Staff, 
Col.  Binda  and  Lieut,  di  Paoli  of  Italian  Army,  Mr. 
Nettement,  French  Consul,  R.  Fulton  Cutting,  Col. 
Simpson,  U.  S.  A.,  Richard  Aldrich  and  Robert  Oly- 
phant. 

Among  those  in  the  top  Row:  Oscar  R.  Cauchois, 
Dr.  Carroll  Dunham,  Carlisle  Norwood,  Chas.  Stewart 
Davison,  John  G.  Agar,  Lieut.  Commander  Wilcox, 
U.  S.  N.,  ex-Ambassador  Elkus,  Stephen  H.  Olin,  Bou- 
dinot  Keith,  Hon.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  principal  speaker 
at  City  Hall,  Dr.  John  H.  Finley,  State  Commr.  of 
Education  and  James  Stillman,  Hon.  Pres.  of  N.  Y. 
Lafayette  Day  Committee. 

[34] 


[35] 


Address  by  THE  FRENCH  AMBASSADOR 

at  the  Lafayette  Bay  Banquet,  Neiv  York, 
September  6,  1917. 


One  hundred  and  sixty  years  ago  to-day,  there  was 
happiness  in  an  old  fortified  manor  in  Auvergne;  the 
chimes  of  the  little  village  church  pealed  forth;  the 
villagers  were  rejoicing;  the  family  forgot  for  one  day 
its  grievous  loss,  for  it  was  in  mourning.  The  lord  of 
the  place  had  been  killed  a  few  weeks  before,  charging 
the  Germans  at  the  head  of  his  grenadiers,  dying 
young,  a  boy  of  25,  like  most  men  of  his  family,  but 
dying  for  the  defence  of  his  land  on  a  day  of  victory. 

The  family,  as  often  before,  was  threatened  with 
extinction,  when  a  child  had  been  born  which  was  taken 
with  great  glee  to  the  church,  and  the  little  thing  was 
pompously  registered  as  consisting  in  the  ^^very  high 
and  powerful  lord,  my  lord  Marie  Joseph  Paul  Yves 
Roch  Gilbert  Dumotier  de  la  Fayette''. 

Outside  the  castle  and  village  the  event  passed  of 
course  unnoticed. 

In  the  old  world  and  in  the  new,  the  anniversary  is 
now  observed;  from  the  early  hours  this  morning,  an 
American  flag,  a  replica  of  the  first  one  with  the  13 
stars,  given  by  the  City  of  Independence,  Philadelphia, 
has  been  waving  on  the  belfry  of  the  Hotel  de  Ville 
Paris,  and  we  convene  once  more  in  great  New  York> 
at  the  call  of  a  committee  of  citizens  and  of  France- 
America,  joining  in  thought  the  villagers  of  long  ago, 
rejoicing  with  them  for  the  birth  of  that  little  thing 
which,  in  spite  of  its  being  so  high  and  powerful,  knew 
only,  on  that  auspicious  6th  of  September,  how  to  cry. 

A  great  change  has  been  wrought,  which  will  go 
increasing  as  the  consequences  of  events  continue  to 
develop:  for  on  that  day  had  been  born  a  fearless, 

[37] 


Address  by  the  French  Ambassador 

honest  man,  in  whom  every  noble  thought  awakened 
enthusiasm,  a  fit  friend  for  a  Washington,  a  man  who 
knew  the  value  of  a  pledge  and  who,  from  the  day  he 
was  able  to  think,  pledged  his  life  to  the  service  of 
Liberty.  This  general  pledge  he  renewed  when  first 
touching  American  ground  in  1777,  he  vowed,  as  he 
says  in  his  memoirs,  to  win  or  die  here  with  the  cause 
of  Liberty. 

On  the  sacredness  of  a  pledge  mainly  rests  the 
whole  fabric  of  civilization.  Let  that  disappear,  and 
we  go  back  to  barbarism  and  the  rule  of  sheer  force. 
Homo  homini  lupus,  Plautus  has  sneeringly  said. 
What  permits  us  to  live  otherwise  than  like  wild  ani- 
mals is  that  inward  feeling  which  early  allowed  both 
the  stronger  and  the  weaker  to  freely  come  together 
and  say:  let  us  be  friends,  and  caused  them  to  keep 
their  word.  There  is  scarcely  a  better  test  of  the 
progress  of  mankind  towards  happiness  and  peaceful 
development  than  the  degree  of  observance  of  the 
pledged  word  freely  given.  To  the  appetites,  ambi- 
tions, furies  of  the  beast  that  was  in  us,  an  invisible 
barrier  is  opposed,  stronger,  among  honest  men  and 
honest  nations,  than  w^alls  and  guns,  a  barrier  con- 
sisting in  a  w^ord,  a  pledged  word. 

From  this  results  betw^een  nations  peace,  trust, 
joyful  development;  from  the  reverse  results — what 
we  see  to-day,  a  state  of  things  so  fearful  that  the 
world  has  never  seen  the  like,  even  in  the  days  of 
those  Huns  on  whose  barbarity  our  enemies  cheerfully 
pretend  to  model  theirs;  those  Huns  could  spare  a 
city;  at  the  request  of  its  bishop,  they  spared  Troyes; 
their  followers  of  to-day  cannot  spare  a  child,  a  woman, 
a  wounded  soldier,  a  church,  witness  the  shelling  from 
the  air  of  the  British  and  French  open  cities,  the  kill- 
ing of  Miss  Cavell,  the  dropping  of  bombs,  last  week, 
on  our  hospitals  back  of  Verdun,  witness  the  *'Lusi- 


[38] 


Address'  by  the  French  Ambassador 

tania'\  They  even  take  the  trouble  of  killing  trees, 
so  great  is  their  lust  for  killing. 

The  tragedy  of  it  all  is  that  since  we  are  averse, 
even  when  the  day  of  victory  comes,  to  ruling  our 
enemies  and  to  turning  against  them  their  principles, 
for  we  love  ours,  no  end  is  possible  save  by  taking  the 
word  of  those  men  for  whom  the  pledged  word  is  noth- 
ing, is  a  trifle,  a  bauble,  something  to  make  fun  of. 
'^We  cannof ,  the  President  has  said  in  his  answer  to 
the  Pope,  ''take  the  word  of  the  present  rulers  of 
Germany  as  a  guarantee  of  anything  that  is  to  en- 
dure.'' 

We  had  premonitions  of  what  has  happened,  but 
we  could  not  believe  them.  Just  as  the  Savern  inci- 
dent was  premonitory,  and  it  has  been  justly  said  by 
an  American  paper  that  Louvain  was  Savern  written 
in  larger  letters,  so  we  had  a  foretaste  of  what  the  Ger- 
mans think  of  pledges  when  they  passed,  as  a  proper 
thing  to  do,  their  monstrous  law  of  July  1913,  whose 
article  25  permits  any  of  them  to  swear  allegiance  to  a 
foreign  country  and  thus  become  naturalized;  and  to 
secretly  forswear  himself  before  his  Consul  who  thus 
becomes  his  accomplice,  and  to  remain  a  subject  of  the 
Kaiser. 

We  had  no  right  to  be  surprised  after  that  and  yet 
we  were,  so  appalling  was  the  regression  toward  bar- 
barism, when  the  German  Chancellor  uttered  his  fa- 
mous statements  to  the  Ambassador  of  Great  Britain, 
on  the  day  of  the  unspeakable  crime,  the  invasion  of 
Belgium  ^*.  ,  .  Just  for  a  word,  neutrality  .  .  . 
just  for  a  scrap  of  paper  .  .  .  ",  said  the  champion 
of  Barbarism,  for  which  a  word  is  nothing,  a  word 
has  no  force.  *'I  said",  the  champion  of  Great  Britain 
and  of  civilization  wrote,  giving  to  his  Government  an 
account  of  the  interview,  **that,  in  the  same  way  as  he 
and  Herr  von  Jagow  wished  me  to  understand  that, 
for  stategical  reasons,  it  was  a  matter  of  life  and  death 

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Address  hy  the  French  Ambassador 

to  Germany  to  advance  through  Belgium  ...  so 
I  would  wish  him  to  understand  that  it  was  . 
a  matter  of  life  and  death  for  the  honor  of  Great 
Britain  that  she  should  keep  her  solemn  engagement 
.  .  .  to  defend  Belgium's  neutrality.''  And  as,  on 
behalf  of  barbarity,  the  other  spoke  of  consequences, 
the  answer  was :  ^'I  hinted  to  His  Excellency  as  plainly 
as  I  could  that  fear  of  consequences  could  hardly  be 
regarded  as  an  excuse  for  breaking  solemn  engage- 
ments. ' ' 

Here  spoke  truth,  and  honesty,  and  civilization; 
here  the  future  answered  the  past.  For  having  spoken 
those  timely  words,  the  name  of  my  friend  Sir  Edward 
Goschen  will  ever  be  gratefully  remembered. 

And  what  shall  we  say  of  the  Belgian  King  and  of 
Belgium's  answer,  safeguarded,  as  that  country 
thought  she  was,  by  solemn  treaties,  and  by  German 
pledges  just  renewed  the  year  before!  ''Belgian  neu- 
trality'^. Secretary  of  State  Jagow  had  declared  to 
the  Eeichstag  on  April  29th,  1913,  ''is  provided  for  by 
International  conventions,  and  Germany  is  determined 
to  respect  those  conventions." 

Requested  to  allow  a  "friendly"  invasion  of  her 
territory,  a  "friendly"  violation  of  her  neutrality,  Bel- 
gium answered  in  the  very  words  of  Sir  Edward 
Goshen,  for  on  every  lip  honesty  speaks  the  same 
language:  "The  Belgian  Government,  if  they  were  to 
accept  the  proposals  submitted  to  them,  would  sacri- 
fice the  honor  of  the  nation  and  betray  their  duty 
towards  Europe",  and  to  the  answer  of  their  Minister 
they  added  that  of  the  guns  of  glorious  Liege. 

And  what  shall  we  say  of  America's  answer?  for 
her  turn  was  to  come ;  it  could  not  be  otherwise.  All 
felt  this,  excepting  that  enemy  who  had  thought  Bel- 
gium would  submit,  and  Belgium  had  answered  at 
Liege;  that  England  would  keep  aloof,  and  she  had 
barred  the  sea  and  sent  to  France  that  admirable  army 

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Address'  by  the  French  Ambassador 

which  has  ceaseless  grown  in  numbers  and  efficiency; 
that  France  would  be  crushed,  and  she  answered  at 
the  Marne  and  at  Verdun;  that  Japan  would  be  an 
on-looker,  and  Japan  answered  at  Kiao  Tchao;  that 
Italy  would  join  them,  but  Italy,  one  of  the  foster- 
mothers  of  civilization,  joined  civilization  against 
Barbarism.  The  American  answer  was  a  memorable 
one;  the  words  of  the  President,  like  the  guns  at  Lex- 
ington, were  heard  round  the  world. 

When  the  man  whom  we  honor  to-day,  when  his 
nation  had  come  to  the  rescue  of  the  struggling  colon- 
ists, we  had  done  a  thing  unexampled  in  the  annals  of 
the  world.  We  had  fought  for  a  sentiment  and  an 
idea,  debarring  ourselves  in  advance  from  any  ma- 
terial advantage,  refusing  special  privileges  which 
were  offered  us  in  a  commercial  treaty,  for  we  wanted 
nothing  that  America  could  not  grant  as  well  to  any 
other  nation,  the  English  included.  Canada  was 
offered  us  after  Yorktown,  and  we  refused. 

This  was  unexampled  then  and  had  never  been 
imitated  since.  It  has  been  now.  In  the  same  spirit, 
at  the  call  of  the  President,  this  nation,  whose  heart 
had  been  from  the  first  with  the  defenders  of  liberty, 
has  taken  sides  with  them  and  will  continue  until  *^the 
world  is  safe  for  democracy '\  '^We  have'',  said  the 
President  in  his  immortal  address  of  April  2,  **no 
selfish  ends  to  serve.  We  desire  no  conquest,  no 
dominion.  We  seek  no  indemnities  for  ourselves,  no 
material  compensation  for  the  sacrifices  we  shall 
freely  make.  We  are  but  one  of  the  champions  of  the 
rights  of  mankind." 

These  words  have  been  heard  round  the  world; 
mankind  has  made  them  its  own:  East  and  West, 
North  and  South,  it  has  aligned  itself  with  those  who 
trust  in  pledges  and  in  the  sacredness  of  treaties; 
from  noble-minded  South  American  Republics,  to  dis- 
tant highly-cultured  China. 

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Address'  by  the  French  Ambassador 

When  will  the  end  come?  It  can  come  only  when 
the  enemy  understands,  when  he  sees  the  evil  he  has 
caused,  and  regrets  it,  when  he  is  ashamed.  The 
change  must  not  be  merely  one  on  paper,  one  in  the 
laws  in  his  country,  but  one  in  his  mind.  Some  favor- 
able signs  are  already  visible;  they  do  not  consist  in 
the  word  peace  being  repeated,  as  it  is,  here  or  there, 
but  in  incipient  confessions.  A  German  General,  a 
member  of  the  supplementary  General  Staff,  stated 
the  other  day,  we  are  told,  that  the  story  of  the  French 
preparing  to  invade  Belgium  was  a  pure  invention  and 
that,  to  our  great  material  damage  (to  our  honor,  in 
truth),  we  had  actually  mobilized  towards  the  regular 
frontier.  Only  a  few  days  ago  we  had  from  the  lips 
of  the  new  German  Secretary  of  State  the  declaration 
that  ''a  policy  based  on  might  alone  and  not  on  right 
is  doomed  to  failure  from  the  beginning".  A  good 
reading  of  history  this,  and  a  good  sign;  a  good  way 
of  reasoning  too.  We  always  felt  sure  of  the  issue 
because  one  who,  like  us,  possesses  both  might  and 
right  has  more  than  one  who,  according  to  his  own 
estimation,  has  only  might.  Sir  Edward  Goschen  had 
heard  different  words  three  years  ago. 

When  peace  comes  the  situation  will  be  the  same  too 
as  at  the  time  of  the  War  of  Independence,  and  with 
the  change  of  one  word,  President  instead  of  King, 
the  head  of  our  Eepublic  will  be  able  to  write  to  your 
Ambassador  in  Paris  what  Washington  wrote  to  my 
predecessor  La  Luzerne  in  1783:  ^^The  magnanimous 
and  disinterested  scale  of  action  which  that  great 
nation  has  exhibited  to  the  world  during  this  war  and 
at  the  conclusion  of  the  peace,  will  insure  to  your 
[President]  and  nation  that  reputation  which  will  be 
of  more  consequence  to  them  than  every  other  con- 
sideration." 

We  must  in  the  meantime  pursue  our  common  task, 
following  the  example  of  our  common  ancestors.    The 

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Address  by  the  French  Ambassador 

visit  of  Lafayette  and  of  Eochambeau  to  these  shores 
is  now  being  returned;  and  a  grand  and  moving  scene 
it  must  have  been  the  other  day,  in  the  Picpus  ceme- 
tery in  Paris,  when  the  erect  form  of  General  Pershing 
was  seen  standing  before  a  tomb  sacred  to  every 
American,  and  those  words  were  heard:  '' Lafayette, 
nous  voila!''  Lafayette,  here  we  are!  What  you  did 
for  our  country,  we  are  going  to  do  for  yours. 

An  English  illustrated  paper  presented  the  other 
day  a  double  picture ;  one  part  showed  an  old  fashioned 
small  ship  disappearing  towards  the  horizon,  and  it 
was  called  ''the  sailing  of  the  Mayflower''.  The  other 
was  an  actual  photograph  showing  innumerable  young 
Americans,  alert  and  plucky,  alighting  somewhere  in 
England,  from  a  huge  United  States'  transport;  and 
it  was  called:  ''the  return  of  the  Mayflower'', 

We  too,  of  the  French  nation,  might  print  a  similar 
double  picture :  one  part  showing  the  small  ship  with 
two  guns  La  Victoire,  which  carried  Lefayette;  the 
other  part  representing  its  return  in  that  long  suc- 
cession of  ships  which  are  bringing  to  France,  for  the 
first  time  in  history,  American  citizens  who,  like 
Lafayette  on  his  landing  here,  have  pledged  their  lives 
in  the  cause  of  liberty.  And,  from  the  name  of  the  old 
craft,  that  picture  would  be  called:  *'The  return  of 
Victoby'*. 


[43] 


LAFAYETTE  DAY  EXERCISES 

Held  at  the  Statue  of  Lafayette,  Union  Square 
New  York  City,  September  6th,  1917 


At  eleven  o'clock  A.  M.  September  6th,  1917,  exer- 
cises were  held  at  the  Statue  of  Lafayette  in  Union 
Square,  which  had  been  appropriately  decorated  for 
the  occasion  as  had  also  the  Washington  Statue  nearby. 
The  Marine  Band  from  the  United  States  land  battle- 
ship ^'Eecruif,  a  naval  recruiting  station  built  to 
resemble  a  battleship,  located  in  Union  Square  a  short 
distance  from  the  Lafayette  Statue,  followed  by  a 
battalion  of  uniformed  naval  recruits  from  the  ^'Re- 
cruit" and  two  hundred  Boy  Scouts  of  America  from 
the  Manhattan  Division,  marched  to  the  Statue  playing 
the  Marsellaise,  and  drew  up  in  front  of  the  platform 
erected  to  the  west  of  the  Monument.  While  the  band 
was  playing,  Daniel  Carter  Beard,  National  Scout 
Commissioner,  and  Alrick  H.  Man,  President  of  the 
Manhattan  Council,  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  placed  a 
large  wreath  on  the  Statue.  There  had  previously  been 
placed  thereon  wreaths  from  the  following  Societies: 
Aeronautic  Society  of  America;  American  Defense 
Society,  Inc. ;  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution ; 
Descendants  of  Signers  of  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence; National  Security  League;  Order  of  Founders 
and  Patriots  of  America  and  the  Society  of  the  Cincin- 
nati. Delegates  were  present  on  the  platform  represent- 
ing these  Societies.  A  crowd  of  several  thousand  per- 
sons, gathered  around  the  platform  and  statue,  followed 
the  exercises  with  close  attention  and  manifested  its 
patriotic  appreciation  of  the  occasion  by  repeated  ap- 
plause of  the  sentiments  expressed. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  in  charge  of  the 
exercises,  Lawrence  F.  Abbot,  Esq.,  introduced  the 
speaker  of  the  day,  Mr.  John  Quinn. 

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Address  by  MR.  JOHN  QUINN 

I  am  happy  to  utter  here,  as  the  representative  of 
the  Lafayette  Day  Citizens'  Committee  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  a  few  words  in  honor  of  the  memory  of 
Lafayette. 

I  hope  that  Lafayette  Day  will  soon  come  to  be 
celebrated  as  a  national  American  holiday. 

Four  great  democracies  are  now  engaged  in  war 
with  Germany,  in  a  sacred  crusade  for  the  protection 
of  life  and  the  saving  of  liberty.  We  are  gathered 
here,  on  this  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Lafayette, 
which  also  is  the  anniversary  of  the  great  French 
victory  at  the  Marne,  to  do  honor  to  Lafayette. 
Lafayette  is  the  very  type  of  eternal  youth.  He  has 
the  happy  fate  of  having  his  name  enshrined  in  history 
as  one  of  the  noblest  examples  of  shining  youth  and 
high  chivalry,  as  the  champion  of  the  oppressed,  as  the 
soldier  of  liberty.  He  is  the  darling  and  pride  of  the 
great  French  republic,  and  the  admired  hero  of  our 
republic,  whose  independence  he  helped  to  achieve. 
(Applause.) 

As  an  American  of  pure  Irish  descent,  I  am  happy 
to  recall  here  that  the  bonds  of  feeling  between  Ireland 
and  France  are  old  and  sacred  ones.  (Applause.)  No 
Irishman  ever  forgets  the  heroic  achievements  of  the 
Irish  Brigade  in  France.  They  are  among  the  undying 
glories  of  the  Irish  race.  Irishmen  all  over  the  world 
recall  the  encouragement  and  the  help  that  one  of  the 
gratest  Irishmen  that  ever  lived,  Theobold  Wolfe  Tone, 
received  from  France.  Irishmen  are  glad  to  remember 
also  that  Robert  Em^met  would  have  been  aided  by 
France  in  the  same  way. 

The  racial  affinities  of  Ireland  and  France  are  many. 
The  habits  of  thought  and  the  passion  for  liberty  are 
the  same  among  Frenchmen  and  Irishmen.  The  old 
tradition  of  Ireland's  loyalty  to  France  is  to-day  car- 

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Address  by  Mr.  John  Quinn 

ried  on  by  the  thousands  and  thousands  of  brave 
soldiers  of  Irish  blood  who  are  fighting  in  France 
shoulder  to  shoulder  with  Englishmen  and  Frenchmen, 
fighting  for  the  life  and  liberty  of  Belgium  and  France. 
Nay,  more;  those  thousands  and  thousands  of  loyal 
Irishmen  are  fighting  not  merely  for  the  life  and  lib- 
erty of  France  and  Belgium,  but  for  the  liberty  of  the 
whole  world.    (Applause.) 

I  am  glad  to  stand  here  and  bear  testimony,  and 
the  Irish-Americans  who  take  part  in  this  celebration 
unite  with  me  in  testifying,  that  Americans  of  Irish 
birth  and  descent  generally  are  heart  and  soul  loyal 
to  the  Flag  in  this  war.  (Great  applause.)  They  be- 
lieve in  the  war.  They  know  ours  is  a  just  and  right- 
eous war.  (Applause.)  They  are  loyally  sending 
their  sons  by  thousands  to  the  war.  (Applause.) 
They  want  no  sham  peace  with  a  people  who  worship 
the  doctrine  of  blood  and  iron  and  of  might  above 
right,  no  peace  based  upon  fraudulent  German  political 
reforms,  no  peace  based  upon  any  mere  German  pledge 
or  promise  whatever.  We  want  no  peace  until  the  be- 
lievers in  the  religion  of  blood  and  iron  and  of  might 
above  right  have  surrendered.  That  symbolic  battle- 
ship represents  our  determination  to  meet  the  Ger- 
mans with  the  only  argument  that  they  can  under- 
stand.    (Applause.) 

In  a  war  in  which  chivalry  and  honor  in  our  enemies 
are  unknown,  we  proudly  rejoice  in  the  chivalry  and 
unstained  honor  of  Lafayette.  He  splendidly  typifies 
the  chivalry  and  honor  of  the  great  nation,  one  of 
whose  allies  we  are  proud  and  glad  to  be. 

General  Pershing  a  few  days  ago,  at  the  tomb  of 
Lafayette  in  France,  spoke  these  stirring  words: 
**Lafayette,  Nous  voild":  **Lafayette,  we  are  here." 
To  that  I  add  these  words:  ** Lafayette,  we  are  send- 
ing more  and  yet  more  of  our  bravest  and  our  best  to 


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Address  hy  Mr.  John  Quinn 

France.    They  are  coining,  coming — coming  a  million 
strong  I''    (Great  applause.) 

After  Mr.  Quinn 's  speech  the  Marine  Band  played 
the  Star  Spangled  Banner. 

The  arrangements  for  the  exercises  at  Union 
Square  were  in  charge  of  Mr.  Edward  Harding,  Chair- 
man of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  National  Committee 
of  Patriotic  and  Defense  Societies. 


[49] 


LAFAYETTE  DAY  EXERCISES 

Held  at  the  Lafayette  Memorial^  Prospect  Parh, 
BrooJdyn,  September  6th,  1917,  at  10.30  A.  M. 

Hon.  Lewis  H.  Pounds,  President  of  the  Borough 
of  Brooklyn  when  as  chairman  he  announced  the 
holding  of  Lafayette  Bay  exercises  in  Brooklyn,  said: 
'^This  is  Brooklyn's  opportunity  to  do  honor  to  Gen- 
eral Lafayette's  memory  and  pay  her  respects  to  our 
great  sister  republic  of  France.  We  can  never  forget 
the  visit  of  the  French  Mission  on  May  10,  when  the 
Lafayette  Memorial  was  dedicated." 

The  exercises  were  preceded  by  a  band  concert  by 
the  Naval  Militia  Band  featured  by  French  and  Ameri- 
can music.  After  a  short  speech  of  welcome  by  Presi- 
dent Pounds,  Plenry  Rowley  sang  the  ^^Marseillaise"; 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton,  chaplain  of  the  Thir- 
teenth Coast  Defense  Command,  delivered  the  oration; 
Mr.  Rowley  then  sang  '^The  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Re- 
public." M.  Stephane  Lauzanne,  who  is  in  the  United 
States  as  member  of  a  mission  of  the  French  Govern- 
ment, then  spoke. 


Address  by  MR.  STEPHANE  LAUZANNE 

Mr.  Chairman, 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

It  is  an  honor  for  me  to  address  such  an  audience 
on  such  a  day.  This  is  a  great  day.  This  is  a  day  when 
we  celebrate  together  the  services  of  Lafayette  and 
Joffre — the  man  of  Yorktown,  the  man  of  the  Marne. 
We  celebrate  American  victory  and  French  victory, 
but  above  all  the  yktory  of  liberty. 

Before  I  cam^/fo  this  land,  I  knew  already  that 
you  felt  here  the  same  spirit  of  liberty,  that  yours  was 
the  same  democracy  tand  that  the  same  colors  were  in 
your  flag  as  in  ours.  Today  I  know  something  more. 
I  know  today  that  you  have  the  same  heart  beating 

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Address  by  Mr.  Stephane  Lausanne 

for  the  same  cause.  You  gave  us  your  hand — ^the  clean 
hand  of  a  free  people.  We  gave  you  ours — ^the  clean 
hand  of  an  unsubjected  people — and  that  clasp  shall 
never  be  broken. 

That  ^wretched'  war,  as  so  many  Americans  call  it, 
France  never  wanted  it,  never  prepared  it,  never  de- 
clared it. 

Fkance  nevee  wanted  War. — If  there  could  be  lany 
doubt  in  any  mind  about  those  who  wanted  War,  I 
would  recall  only  one  fact.  ...  I  would  recall  that 
Mr.  Giolitti,  prime  Minister  of  Italy,  recently  revealed, 
that  in  1913, —  one  year  before  any  Austrian  Archduke 
was  assassinated — Italy  was  offered  by  her  two  Allies, 
Germany  and  Austria,  to  attack  the  little  kingdom  of 
Serbia,  to  invade  it,  to  exterminate  it  and  to  have  a 
share  in  its  spoils.  .  .  .  Here  are  those  who 
wanted  war !     .     .     . 

Feance  nevee  peepaeed  Wae. — If  any  one  desires 
to  know  what  nations  prepared  War,  he  will  remember 
that  from  1883  to  1893 — twenty  years  before  the 
War — whereas  the  increase  of  the  military  expenses 
in  France  was  only  of  70%,  in  England  53%,  in  Russia 
of  97%o,  in  Germany  the  increase  was  of  229%,  and  he 
will  remember  that  in  1913  when  France  spent  120 
millions  in  War  material  Germany  spent  700  millions. 

There  you  have  those  who  prepared  War. 

Feance  nevee  declaeed  Wae. — Not  only  did  she  not 
declare  War,  but  she  seconded  every  proposal  which 
could  prevent  War  from  being  declared;  proposal  of 
international  conference,  proposal  of  arbitration  be- 
fore The  Hague  aribunal.  All  these  proposals  were 
rejected  by  Germany.  Not  only  did  France  not  de- 
clare War,  but  she  did  what  never  any  nation  had  done 
before,  and  on  the  very  eve  of  the  war  she  withdrew 
her  own  troops,  on  her  own  soil,  five  miles  behind  her 
own  borders. 

Those  who  declared  War  are  those  who,  on  August 
3rd,  1914,  at  6.45  P.  M.  sent  a  gentleman  calling  him- 

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Address  by  Mr.  Stephane  Lauzanne 

self  Baron  de  Schoen  and  being  German  Ambassador 
in  Paris,  called  on  the  French  Foreign  Office  and  hand- 
ed an  official  lette,  saying  that  "as  French  military 
aviators  had  thrown  bombs  on  the  railway  near  Nurem- 
berg, the  German  Empire  considered  itself  in  a  state 
of  war  ivith  France." 

Each  term  of  this  letter  has  proved  subsequently  to 
be  untrue;  and  on  May  18  of  last  year,  a  German 
puglication,  the  "Deutsche  Medizinische  Woschen- 
schrift"  published  a  letter  from  the  German  Dr. 
Schwalbe,  burgnester  of  the  town  of  Nuremberg, 
formally  declaring  that  "the  rumor  that  bombs  had 
been  thrown  by  French  aviators  on  Nuremberg  or  its 
railway  was  utterly  untrue."*^  So  that  War  was  not 
only  declared  upon  France  but  was  declared  on  a  false 
pretext. 

And,  now,  let  me  state  once  more  what  is  at  stake 
in  this  World's  War. 

If,  since  thirty-two  months,  France  is  bleeding  land 
struggling,  fighting  and  suffering,  it  is  not  for  money, 
for  Domination,  or  for  Territories.  It  is  for  some- 
thing much  higher  and  much  nobler.  It  is  to  restore  in 
Europe  a  spirit  of  Liberty,  of  Humanity  and,  above 
all,  of  Eespect  of  International  Law.  That  spirit  will 
be  restored  only  when  the  spirit  of  Domination,  of 
Brutality  and  of  Aggression^  symbolized  by  the  Prus- 
sian militarism,  will  be  extirpated  from  Europe.  That 
spirit  must  go.  It  will  go  when  the  people  who  are 
animated  by  it  will  feel  that  they  have  been  beaten ; 

When  they  will  realize  that  they  are  not  the  strong- 
est, but  the  weakest; 

When  they  will  understand  that  they  have  not  to 
dictate  terms  of  peace  but  to  agree  to  terms  of  peace ; 

When  they  will  understand  that  they  have  not  to 
offer,  as  an  aim,  not  to  annihilate  other  nations  but 
that  they  have  to  respect  the  independence  of  every 
nation,  big  or  small,  as  a  supreme  land  imperative  law. 

For  that  we  will  fight  to  the  end,  whatever  may  be 
the  sufferings  of  the  Nation,  whatever  may  be  the  hard- 
ness of  Destiny. 

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Address  by  Mr.  Stephane  Lauzanne 

In  the  dark  days  of  the  battle  of  Verdun,  General 
de  Castelnau  once  exclaimed:  ^^The  ivhole  French 
race  will  perish  on  the  battlefield  rather  than  submit 
to  Germany.''^ 

This  as  true  today  as  it  was  a  year  ago.  We  would 
prefer  to  die  than  to  live  in  a  degraded  Humanity  and 
Humanity  would  be  degraded  if  Germany  could  ever  be 
victorious. 

A  French  statesman,  M.  Louis  Barthou,  ex- 
Premier,  has  summarized  the  French  ''etat  d'ame^^  in 
a  striking  formula,  which  must  be  always  remembered : 
"All  France  for  all  the  war.'' 

Yes,  all  France,  with  her  children,  with  her  men, 
young  and  old,  with  her  women,  with  her  dead,  for  all 
the  war.  And  I  may  add,  all  France  in  all  the  trenches. 
In  the  trenches  of  Verdun,  where  we  had  sworn  to  our- 
selves that,  even  if  we  had  to  give  the  last  drop  of  our 
blood,  Germans  would  not  pass — and  the  Germans 
have  not  passed;  in  the  trenches  of  Kheims,  where  in 
the  shadow  of  the  glorious  mutilated  Cathedral  we 
have  sworn  to  punish  barbarism — and  we  will  punish 
it ;  in  the  trenches  of  the  Somme,  where  with  our  broth- 
ers-in-iarms  of  Scotland,  of  England,  of  Ireland,  of 
Canada,  of  Australia,  of  New  Zealand,  we  have  grasped 
the  aggressors  by  the  throat — and  we  will  not  loosen 
the  grasp. 

For  all  the  war,  whatever  may  be  the  length  of  that 
war,  whatever  may  be  the  sufferings  of  the  nation, 
whatever  may  be  the  hardships  imposed  by  destiny,  in 
order  that  we  may  punish  those  who  in  declaring  this 
war  have  committed  a  crime  against  humanity,  and 
who  in  carrying  on  this  war  as  they  have  done,  with 
every  needless  cruelty  the  mind  can  conceive,  have  com- 
mitted all  the  crimes  against  civilization  which  it  was 
in  their  power  to  commit. 

All  France  for  all  the  war!  But  the  whole  of 
France  also  for  the  whole  victory — for  the  victory 
which  will  not  alone  be  the  victory  of  France  but  also 
the  victory  of  right,  of  justice,  of  humanity. 

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LAFAYETTE  DAY  IN  FRANCE 

The  account  of  Lafayette  Day  1917  would  not  be 
complete  if  it  did  not  include  reference  to  the  fact  that 
it  was  observed  in  France  under  inspiring  circum- 
stances. In  Paris  the  ceremony  was  held  at  the  Hotel 
de  Ville  where  a  replica  of  the  first  American  flag  was 
flown,  the  gift  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia.  The  fol- 
lowing telegram  was  sent  by  the  head  of  the  Paris 
municipality  to  Mayor  Smith  of  Philadelphia: 

*^  Today,  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Lafay- 
ette, the  flag  offered  to  France  by  your  noble  city 
and  delivered  to  the  City  of  Paris  by  the  President 
of  the  French  Eepublic  was  raised  on  our  City 
Hall  (Hotel  de  Ville)  in  the  presence  of  Mr.  Sharp, 
the  eminent  ambassador,  delegations  of  American 
and  French  officers  and  delegates  of  the  American 
Bed  Cross.  On  the  historical  City  Hall  square 
where  so  many  glorious  events  of  our  national 
life  have  taken  place,  the  Parisian  population, 
associating  itself  with  its  representatives,  greeted 
with  enthusiastic  cheers  your  great  democracy 
now  standing  against  autocracy  and  firmly  re- 
solved like  ourselves  to  terminate  victoriously  this 
liberating  war.  I  am  its  interpreter  in  expressing 
to  Philadelphia  sentiments  of  fraternal  sympathies 
of  Paris  and  our  dearest  wishes  that  the  ancient 
bonds  which  bind  our  two  countries  may  be  even 
closer.'' 

The  great  event  in  France  took  place,  however,  at 
Fere-Champenoise  where  a  decisive — some  believe  the 
decisive — phase  of  the  Battle  of  the  Marne  was  fought. 
The  President  of  the  French  Republic,  Premier 
Ribot,  Minister  of  War  Painleve,  Marshal  Joffre, 
General  Petain  and  General  Foch  were  present, 
as  also  Mr.  Chaumet  and  Mr.  Leon  Bourgeois. 
The  Premier,  Mr.  Ribot,  delivered  a  superb  ad- 
dress which  w^as  primarily  a  national  homage  to  the 

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Lafayette  Day  in  France 

soldiers  of  the  Mame  and  their  leaders.    The  address 
ended  in  the  following  peroration : 

' '  May  we  steel  our  courage  and  fortify  our  will 
at  the  contact  with  these  memories  of  the  first  days 
of  the  war  in  which  France  showed  a  heroism  so 
beautiful  and  proved  that  she  possessed  a  spirit 
of  unity  so  admirable.  Days  of  suffering  and  of 
grief,  but  also  days  of  victory  won  over  ourselves 
as  well  as  over  our  enemies,  may  your  image  be 
ever  before  our  eyes ;  may  the  heroes  of  the  Marne 
remind  us  ever  of  the  single  duty  imposed  upon 
us  all,  to  think  only  of  the  country  and  to  forget 
our  quarrels  and  divisions.  They  who  have  died 
for  France,  may  they  teach  us  to  live  for  her  and 
to  sacrifice  all  for  her.  Thus  we  will  feel  raised 
above  ourselves  to  the  height  of  our  duties  toward 
the  country.'' 

General  Foch  spoke  of  the  days  when  his  army 
formed  the  centre  of  the  French  Army  which  the  enemy 
sought  to  pierce  between  Sezanne  and  Mailly.  He  de- 
scribed the  situation  on  the  sixth,  which  was  precar- 
ious, and  told  how  on  the  seventh  the  Germans  were 
attacking  him  with  *'a  magnificent  artillery"  which 
did  not  however  dismay  the  heroes  who  were  holding 
on  to  the  plateau  over  which  shells  were  raining.  He 
described  the  daring  manoeuvre  by  which  the  Forty- 
second  Division  was  shifted  from  the  left  to  the  right 
wing  in  the  midst  of  the  battle  and  how  General  Gros- 
setti  aided  by  the  Moroccan  Division  succeeded  in 
carrying  out  this  movement.  He  spoke  of  the  Breton 
regiment  who,  their  officers  almost  all  killed  and  their 
ranks  deciminated,  did  not  fall  back  but  asked  for  new 
officers.  He  referred  to  the  ^* fragments"  of  regiments 
which  got  together  and  organized  themselves  into 
new    regiments    and    on    the    9th    at    5    o'clock    in 

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Lafayette  Day  in  France 

the  evening  started  their  irresistible  offensive. 
Then  the  attack  on  the  Chateau  de  Mondemont 
with  two  75s  brought  by  man-power  before  the 
gate,  the  rush  of  the  French  through  the  orchard, 
the  flight  of  the  Germans  toward  the  east;  with  a 
broad  gesture  General  Foch  points  to  the  roads, 
the  plains,  now  covered  with  crops,  the  immense  open- 
air  ampitheatre  in  which  the  German  Army  sustained 
the  initial  and  decisive  defeat  of  the  great  war.  As  he 
spoke  (without  any  reference  to  himself)  Marshal 
Joffre  followed  on  the  map  the  movement  of  these 
army  "fragments''  which  triumphed  because  they 
retained  faith,  spirit  and  discipline.  It  w^as  for  the 
President  of  the  French  Republic  to  add  a  few  words 
recalling  the  admirable  work  accomplished  by  the  man 
who  described  the  battle. 

On  their  way  to  Fere  Champenoise  the  President  of 
the  French  Republic  and  the  Minister  of  War 
Painleve,  as  also  General  Petain  and  several  other 
French  generals  stopped  at  the  American  Field 
headquarters  where  they  were  greeted  by  Generals 
Pershing  and  Sibert.  A  review  was  held  on  the 
top  of  a  plateau.  The  appearance  of  our  troops  is 
described  as  magnificent;  their  bands  played  the  Mar- 
seillaise as  the  French  president  arrived.  After  the 
review,  as  the  men  stood  at  ease,  all  of  the  officers  of 
the  Expeditionary  forces  were  detached  and  assembled 
in  a  semi-circle  about  the  President  and  his  party. 

General  Pershing  stepped  forward  and  addressed 
them  briefly:  *^We  are  being  paid  a  great  honor  to- 
day", he  said,  "in  the  visit  of  the  President  of  the 
Republic  to  which  we  have  come  to  do  our  share  in  the 
fight  for  liberty.  This  happens  also  to  be  the  anni- 
versary of  the  beginning  of  the  battle  of  the  Marne,  a 
day  which  will  ever  stand  out  in  the  history  of  the 
world.  It  is  peculiarly  fitting  that  this  army  should 
be  so  honored  on  this  day,  for  I  am  sure  it  will  give  us 

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Lafayette  Day  in  France 

a  still  greater  feeling  of  patriotism  and  loyalty  for  the 
principles  for  which  we  shall  fight  and  will  instill  into 
us  a  still  higher  spirit  for  the  accomplishment  of  the 
task  which  is  before  us.  It  will  make  us,  the  advance 
guard  of  America's  forces,  feel  still  more  keenly  the 
responsibility  that  has  been  placed  upon  us.'* 
President  Poincare  then  spoke : 

**It  makes  me  very  happy  to  be  able  to  bring 
today  the  congratulations  of  the  French  republic 
to  this  very  fine  army  commanded  by  General 
Pershing  and  which  I  have  just  seen  marching 
before  me  in  such  a  magnificent  manner.  It  filled 
me  with  emotion  at  seeing  so  many  gallant  officers 
and  so  many  brave  soldiers  who  braved  the  dan- 
gers of  the  sea  to  come  to  the  soil  of  France  to 
defend  the  common  cause  of  the  allies  and  to  con- 
secrate their  lives,  if  need  be  to  the  common  cause 
of  liberty.  As  President  Wilson  said  the  other 
day,  we  are  all  fighting  for  the  same  ends  and  the 
interests  of  the  free  United  States  are  at  stake 
everj^where  the  allied  armies  are  at  grips  with  the 
enemy,  whether  it  be  in  Flanders,  before  Verdun, 
or  on  the  Isonzo. 

**  Today  in  all  of  the  great  cities  of  America  is 
being  celebrated  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Lafayette.  Today  also  I  will  visit  the  tombs  of 
the  heroes  of  the  battle  of  the  Marne,  the  men  fallen 
in  the  advance  guard  of  the  armies,  which  are  now 
fighting  for  right  and  civilization.  Thus  our  two 
countries  are  celebrating  today  two  common  anni- 
versaries which  must  draw  them  still  more  closely 
together  and  inspire  them  in  the  struggle  in  which 
they  are  engaged.'* 

The  president  referred  briefly  to  the  gift  of  a  flag 
from  the  mayor  of  Philadelphia  to  the  municipal  coun- 
cil of  Paris  and  concluded  his  address  with  the  cry: 
**Long  live  President  "Wilson  I  Long  live  the  free 
United  StatesI*' 

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Lafayette  Bay  in  Frounce 

President  Poincare  was  warmly  applauded  and  then 
the  officers  gave  three  cheers  and  a  tiger.  The  cheer- 
ing was  taken  up  by  the  troops  in  the  distance  and 
continued  while  the  president  and  his  party  were  leav- 
ing the  reviewing  field. 


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LAFAYETTE  DAY  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES 
OUTSIDE  OF  NEW  YORK 

The  following  is  a  summary  nf  the  celebrations 
held  in  the  United  States  outside  of  New  York : 

Philadelphia:  The  celebration  took  place  on  the  same 
ground  over  which  Lafayette  passed  following  his 
appointment  as  a  major  general  of  the  Continental 
armies  and  began  at  about  two  o  'clock  p.  m.  follow- 
ing the  arrival  of  Ambassador  Jusserand. 

Philadelphia  was  decked  with  the  stars  and 
stripes  and  the  tricolor  of  France,  as  also  the  flags 
of  Great  Britain,  Italy  and  our  other  Allies  in  the 
great  war.  The  Ambassador  was  escorted  from 
the  station  to  Independence  Hall  (in  front  of  which 
a  platform  had  been  erected  for  the  exercises)  by 
Col.  J.  Campbell  Gilmore,  Col.  John  Gribbel,  presi- 
dent of  the  Union  League ;  Mr.  Victor  Fonteneau, 
acting  French  Vice-Consul;  Charles  Bailey,  Mrs. 
Cornelius  Stevenson,  chairman  of  the  French  war 
relief  committee,  and  two  battalions  of  the  First 
Regiment  Infantry,  commanded  by  Major  David 
Simpson,  and  the  Veteran  Corps  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment. Their  progress  from  Broad  Street  down 
Chestnut  to  Independence  Hall  was  marked  by  a 
continued  series  of  cheers  and  ovations.  Before 
the  State  House  Col.  Gribbel  form'ally  presented 
the  Ambassador  and  Mme.  Jusserand  to  the  re- 
ceiving party,  Col  Gribbel  being  chairman  of  the 
ceremonies.  The  Reception  Committee  at  Inde- 
pendence Hall  included  E.  J.  Cattell,  representing 
the  Mayor  of  Philadelphia;  Brigadier  General 
Waller,  General  R.  Dale  Benson,  Dimner  Beeber, 
Cyrus  Borgner,  Benjamin  P.  Opdike,  D.  Newlin 
Fell,  Joseph  P.  Bailey,  James  Pollock,  Francis  B. 
Reeves,  John  Wood,  Jr.,  Thomas  M.  Thompson, 
Alfred  John  Miller  and  Charles  W.  Alexander. 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Philadelphia 

Banners  of  the  Societe  Francaise  of  Philadelphia 
and  emblems  of  other  associations  devoted  to  per- 
petuating the  friendship  between  France  and  the 
United  States  were  carried  during  the  celebration. 

Thousands  of  spectators  crowded  around  the 
historic  home  of  American  liberty  as  the  Ambas- 
sador's party,  passing  through  Independence  Hall 
beyond  the  Liberty  Bell,  made  their  way  to  the 
speaker's  stand.  Platoons  of  infantry  in  olive- 
drab  service  uniforms  were  lined  up  before  the 
steps  where  the  flags  were  to  be  unfurled  and  as 
the  speakers  took  their  seats  on  the  platform  the 
mass  of  spectators  spread  almost  to  the  Walnut 
Street  boundary  of  the  square. 

After  the  ^^Marseillaise"  was  sung,  Ambas- 
sador Jusserand  made  a  brief  address  in  which  he 
said  that  brotherly  love,  the  symbol  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  the  clarion  call  of  "Independence" 
would  be  the  future  watchwords  of  nations.  Ad- 
dressing the  veterans  he  spoke  of  the  American 
army  as  "soldiers  for  France  and  for  America 
who  will  be  received  in  France  with  the  same  love 
that  followed  Lafayette  wherever  he  went  in  this 
country. ' '  He  added :  ^ '  This  Hall  is  indeed  to  me 
a  sacred  spot;  when  Lafayette  came  here  the  bell 
had  shortly  before  sounded  liberty  for  the  whole 
world.  Today  we  are  all  fighting  for  that  liberty. 
We  want  it  for  everyone,  even  for  those  who  do  not 
like  it.  The  time  will  come  when  they  will  learn 
to  like  it  and  perhaps  that  time  is  not  so  far  away 
as  they  think." 

Mr.  Henry  Winthrop  Hardon,  representing  the 
Lafayette  Day  National  Committee,  then  read  the 
messages  which  the  Committee  had  received  from 
President  Poincare,  Marshal  Joffre,  Admiral  Sir 
David  Beatty,  commander  of  the  British  Grand 
Fleet,  General  Pershing  and  Ambassador  Sharp, 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Philadelphia 

which  were  being  read  simultaneously  at  the  exer- 
cises held  in  City  Hall,  New  York.  The  text  of 
these  messages  will  be  found  in  this  book  in  the 
report  of  the  New  York  exercises. 

Hon.  John  M.  Patterson,  the  principal  speaker, 
was  then  heard.  He  declared  that ' '  the  part  which 
Lafayette  played  in  the  American  cause  was  great 
enough  and  grand  enough  to  make  his  name  live 
as  long  as  men  and  women  shall  delight  in  honor- 
ing the  brave. ' '    He  added : 

^'In  1787  we  find  Lafayette  doing  good 
service  in  behalf  of  those  who  were  being 
persecuted  because  of  their  religion.  We  find 
him  actively  interested  in  plans  to  abolish 
slavery.  We  find  him  demanding,  and  he 
alone  signing  the  demand,  that  the  King  in- 
voke the  States  General.  Later  we  find  him 
vice-president  of  the  National  Assembly,  and 
on  July  11,  1789,  presenting  a  declaration  of 
rights,  modelled  on  our  own  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence. 

'^From  1789  until  the  end  of  the  constitu- 
tional monarchy  in  1792,  the  history  of  La- 
fayette is  largely  the  history  of  France.  When 
the  plain  people  of  France  rose  up  and  became 
just  as  cruel  and  just  as  lawless  in  their  an- 
archy as  the  nobles  had  been  in  their  tyrrany, 
Lafayette  stood  forth  and  defied  the  mob  with 
the  same  courage  with  which  he  had  defied  the 
King. 

^*It  was  he  who  rescued  Queen  Marie 
Antoinette  from  the  hands  of  the  populace  on 
October  5th  and  6th,  1789.  It  was  he  who 
saved  many  humbler  victims  who  had  been 
condemned  to  death. 

**We  find  him  in  the  Assembly,  pleading 
for  the  abolition  of  arbitrary  imprisonment; 
lifting  his  voice  in  behalf  of  religious  toler- 
ance; advocating  popular  representation;  de- 
manding the  establishment  of  trial  by  jury; 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Philadelphia 

asking  for  the  gradual  emancipation  of  slaves; 
vindicating  the  freedom  of  the  press;  request- 
ing the  abolition  of  titles  of  nobility,  and  the 
suppression  of  privileged  orders. 

^^  Lafayette  was  not  only  fascinated  by  the 
genius  of  Napoleon,  but  was,  of  course,  filled 
with  a  deep  sense  of  gratitude  for  what  Bona- 
parte had  done  in  having  him  released  from 
captivity.  The  patriotism  of  Lafayette  and 
his  love  of  liberty  was  greater  even  than  his 
gratitude. 

^^He  not  only  typifies  unselfish  patriotism, 
but  he  also  stands  forth  as  an  example  of  con- 
stancy, of  a  determination  to  remain  faithful 
to  principles  at  any  sacrifice.  No  man  has 
been  more  constant  in  his  public  career  than 
Lafayette.  He  remained  the  man  of  1789  to 
the  day  of  his  death.  Offers  of  power  from 
the  Jacobins  failed  to  swerve  him  from  his 
principles.  The  Directory  was  unable  to  drive 
him  by  permitting  his  return  to  France  from 
exile.  While  other  public  men  waited  and 
bowed  at  Napoleon's  court,  then  deserted  him 
for  Louis  XVIII,  and  then  waited  and  bowed 
again  at  Napoleon's  court  in  1815,  and  then 
turned  their  backs  on  the  Little  Corporal  in 
the  hour  of  his  adversity,  to  again  seek  favors 
of  the  Bourbon  King,  Lafayette  alone  re- 
mained true  to  France  and  true  to  himself. 

*  *  Let  the  young  men  of  this  day  and  gene- 
ration try  to  emulate  his  unselfish  devotion  to 
liberty.  Men  do  not  live  to  die  in  vain.  What 
does  the  life  of  Lafayette  teach?  I  should 
say  that  it  teaches  us  that  the  common  indi- 
vidual man  is  the  sublimest  asset  of  the  world, 
that  a  republic  is  a  final  form  of  human  so- 
ciety, where  political  power  rests,  or  should 
rest,  on  fitness  alone,  and  where  the  sole  ob- 
ject of  such  power  should  be  the  public  good. ' ' 
The  address  of  C.  Stuart  Patterson  follows: 

**Day  by  day  our  boys,  the  flower  of 
American  manhood  are  sailing,  proud  to  fight, 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Philadelphia 

side  by  side  with  the  splendid  soldiers,  who, 
under  the  banners  of  France,  England,  Italy, 
Russia  and  Belgium,  have  held  the  foe  at  bay 
since  the  fateful  days  of  August,  1914.  Be- 
hind our  men-at-arms  is  the  nation,  more  than 
100,000,000  strong,  men  too  young  to  light 
now,  men  too  old  to  fight  and,  last,  but  not 
least,  women,  all  united,  all  devoted,  all  de- 
termined that  every  moral  and  every  material 
resource  shall  be  lavishly  poured  forth  in  this 
greatest  of  battles,  the  battle  of  mercy  against 
cruelty  and  the  battle  of  right  against  might. 

^'No  one  dare  doubt  that  the  victory  will 
be  won.  It  may  not  come  this  year.  It  may 
not  come  for  many  years.  But  come  it  will. 
And  when  the  angel  of  peace  shall  rise  from 
out  of  the  carnage  and  spread  her  wings  over 
the  world,  the  fair  lands  of  France  and  Bel- 
gium will  be  relieved  of  the  polluting  foot- 
steps of  the  invader,  industry  will  turn  from 
works  of  destruction  to  construction  and  the 
sun  of  prosperity  will  rise  again  after  the  long 
night  of  horror.  But  alas!  Nothing  will 
bring  to  life  on  earth  the  brave  souls  who 
have  died  that  their  nations  might  live  or 
those  other  brave  souls  who  have  been  brut- 
ally murdered  on  land  or  at  sea. 

*'They  must  not  have  died  in  vain.  It 
must  be  made  certain  that  their  sacrifice  has 
not  been  useless.  Every  reasonable  being  ear- 
nestly wants  a  speedy  end  to  the  carnage;  but 
that  end,  to  be  final,  must  be  a  peace,  not  a 
truce.  No  real  and  lasting  peace  can  be  based 
upon  a  compromise.  It  can  only  rest  securely 
upon  the  decisive  and  conclusive  triumphs  of 
right.  As  Mr.  Lincoln  said  in  1864,  when 
timorous  souls  who  cried  for  peace  at  any 
price  assailed  him.  ^We  accepted  this  war, 
we  did  not  begin  it;  we  accepted  it  for  an  ob- 
ject, and  when  that  object  is  accomplished  the 
war  will  end;  and  I  hope  to  God  it  never  will 
end  until  that  object  is  accomplished.' 

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Lafayette  Bay  in  Philadelphia 

' 'Every  word  of  that  masterly  statement  is 
applicable  to  our  situation  today.  Our  object 
in  this  war  is  to  make  certain  that  no  nation 
shall  ever  again  be  able  to  terrorize  the  habit- 
able globe,  and  at  its  will  to  inflict  upon  man- 
kind the  losses,  the  suffering,  the  miseries  of 
modern  warfare;  and  until  that  object  be  ac- 
complished this  war  will  not  end. 

'*I  cannot  conclude  without  paying  my 
humble  tribute  of  respect  and  admiration  to 
the  heroic  soldiers  and  the  not  less  heroic  peo- 
ple of  France.  Nothing  can  better  typify  the 
unconquered  and  unconquerable  France  of  the 
republic  than  the  story  of  the  mother  bending 
with  sobs  over  the  body  of  her  son  fallen  on 
the  field  of  honor,  and  then  proudly  rising  to 
her  full  height  and  saying  with  flashing  eyes 
and  clenched  fists,  'C'est  pour  la  patrie.' 

*'In  that  is  the  needed  lesson  for  us  today. 
Never  in  our  history  has  there  been  a  time 
when  it  was  so  imperatively  a  duty  as  it  is 
now  for  everyone  to  censecrate  onesself,  all 
that  one  has  and  all  that  one  can  do  to  the 
service  of  our  country,  to  whose  free  institu- 
tions we  owe  all  that  we  have  and  are. 

**And  now,  in  the  words  of  Mr.  Lincoln, 

*with  firmness  in  the  right,  as  God  gives  us 

to  see  the  right  ^  let  us  strive  to  finish  the  work 

we  are  in    *    *    *    to  care  for  him  who  shall 

have  borne  the  battle  and  for  his  widow  and 

orphan,  and  to  do  all  which  may  achieve  a 

just  and  lasting  peace. ' ' 

When  the  signal  was  given  for  the  raising  of 

the  two  flags,  there  was  a  stiffening  of  the  lines  of 

soldiers  ranged  about  the  flag-draped  platform. 

The  white  ropes  had  been  attached  to  a  point  high 

up  on  the  original  bell  tower  and  with  the  first 

blast  of  a  bugle  eager  hands  reached  out,  the 

ropes  tightened,  and  while  the  American  emblem 

floated  upward  the  ^*Star  Spangled  Banner''  was 

played.     Higher,  higher  the  flag  rode,  until  the 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Philadelphia 

first  glint  of  the  Lafayette  emblem,  directly  below, 
followed  the  one  with  the  forty-eight  stars.  The 
name  of  Lafayette  was  seen  imprinted  across  the 
top  of  the  thirteen-star  flag,  and  the  cheers  went 
upward  until  the  two  emblems  of  Freedom  were 
flung  aloft. 


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Lafayette  Day  in  San  Francisco 

%B,n  Francisco:  The  celebration  in  San  Francisco  was 
participated  in  by  the  municipal  and  federal  au- 
thorities in  the  City  represented  respectively  by 
Mayor  James  Rolfe,  Jr.  and  Postmaster  Charles 
W.  Fay,  and  was  attended  by  a  delegation  of  the 
French  High  Commission  to  the  United  States 
headed  by  Mr.  Edouard  DeBilly  accompanied  by 
Col.  James  Martin,  Capt.  E.  J.  D.  Rouvier  and 
Lieut.  Henri  de  Courtivron  of  the  French  Army. 
The  delegation  was  greeted  at  the  City  Hall  by  a 
Reception  Committee  headed  by  the  Mayor  and 
Postmaster,  where  an  official  reception  and  wel- 
come was  held.  A  military  review  was  held  in 
honor  of  the  delegation  at  the  Presidio.  The 
guests  of  honor  were  taken  thence  to  the  luncheon 
given  to  them  by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
the  Commercial  Club.  On  entering  the  banquet 
hall  the  envoys  were  given  a  warm  ovation,  the 
whole  gathering  rising  and  cheering. 

In  the  course  of  his  address  Mr.  DeBilly  dwelt 
upon  the  common  ideals  of  France  and  the  United 
States.    Speaking  of  the  war  he  said : 

**We  were  insufficiently  prepared  which 
was  proof  of  our  peaceful  intentions.  One- 
eighth  of  our  territory  was  invaded  and 
it  contained  the  best  of  our  iron  and 
coal  districts.  But  we  obtained  coal,  cop- 
per and  steel  from  America  and  Eng- 
land. From  the  first  we  always  had  a 
sufficient  quantity  of  75  millimeter  guns 
but  when  the  war  broke  out  we  had  only  300 
guns  of  heavy  calibre.  Now,  in  July,  we  have 
6,000  of  these  guns.  Notwithstanding  our 
losses,  which  I  do  not  attempt  to  minimize 
France  has  still  three  million  men  under  arms 
and  reserves  to  keep  this  number  up  to  its 
present  level  for  a  long  time.  And  now  you 
\  have  come  to  us,  fighting  your  war,  but  fight- 

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Lafayette  Day  in  San  Francisco 

ing  it  with  us,  our  aims  being  in  common,  our 
ideals  the  same/' 

The  Lafayette  Day  banquet  took  place  in  the 
evening  under  the  auspices  of  the  Friends  of 
France  at  the  Fairmont  Hotel.  On  the  following 
day  the  delegation  was  entertained  at  a  luncheon 
given  by  the  San  Francisco  Women's  Centre  at 
the  Hotel  St.  Francis  under  the  chairmanship  of 
Miss  Marion  Delaney.  The  delegation  visited 
four  of  the  largest  public  schools  of  the  city  and 
in  the  evening  attended  a  reception  given  in  their 
honor  by  the  San  Francisco  Labor  Council. 

The  main  feature  of  the  exercises  centered 
about  the  dedication  of  the  Library  of  French 
Thought,  a  gift  of  the  French  Government  to  the 
University  of  California,  where  the  guests  of 
honor  were  greeted  by  President  Benjamin  I. 
"Wheeler.  The  ceremonies  at  the  University  had 
been  arranged  by  the  Friends  of  France.  Mr.  W. 
B.  Bourne,  president  of  that  organization,  and  Mr. 
Porter  Carnett,  its  secretary,  both  made  addresses, 
as  did  also  President  Benjamin  I.  Wheeler,  Bruce 
Porter,  founder  of  the  Friends  of  France,  and 
Professors  Henry  Morse  Stevens,  Charles  Mills 
Greeley  and  Charles  Chinard.  After  accepting  the 
gift,  President  Wheeler  said: 

**  These  books  speak  for  the  artistic  life, 
inspirations  of  a  great  people.  Imagine  what 
Lafayette  would  have  said  could  he  have  been 
told  that  a  Library  of  French  Thought  would 
have  been  established  on  the  Pacific  coast — 
he  for  whom  the  country  west  of  the  Mississ- 
ippi Valley  was  terra  incognita/' 

This  notable  two  day  event  has  added  a  stirring 
chapter  to  the  history  of  San  Francisco. 

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Lafayette  Bay  in  Los  Angeles 

Los  Angeles:  The  celebration  took  place  at  the  Expo- 
sition Park.  It  had  been  arranged  by  a  Committee 
appointed  by  Honorable  Fred  H.  T.  Woodman, 
Mayor  of  Los  Angeles,  the  leading  members  of 
the  committee  being  William  A.  Spalding,  Esq., 
General  Charles  E.  Whipple,  U.  S.  A.  Retired, 
Charles  R.  Fletcher,  Professor  William  H.  Knight, 
Edward  L.  Doheney,  Esq.,  Major  George  P.  Rob- 
inson, Pierson  W.  Banning  and  Dr.  Hector  Alliot. 
Several  thousand  patriotic  citizens  of  Los  Angeles 
gathered  to  hear  the  addresses  by  the  Mayor,  Mr. 
Spalding,  president  of  the  Lafayette  Day  Com- 
mittee, Mr.  Charles  R.  Fletcher,  representing  the 
National  Committee,  who  read  the  message  from 
Hon.  Henry  Van  Dyke,  Mr.  Louis  Sentous,  Jr., 
Consular  Agent  of  France,  Mr.  E.  Monette,  presi- 
dent of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
Mrs.  Josiah  Evans  Cowles,  president  of  the  Gen- 
eral Federation  of  Women's  Clubs  and  Hon.  Rob- 
ert L.  Hubbard.  The  musical  arrangements  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Edward  Lebegott  included  the 
singing  of  American  national  anthems  and  the 
Marseillaise. 

As  an  interesting  outcome  of  the  celebration 
a  permanent  organization  has  been  founded  in 
Los  Angeles  called  the  *' Lafayette  Society** 
whose  object  is  to  aid  in  the  perpetuation  of  the 
traditions  which  bind  this  country  to  France,  in- 
cluding the  adequate  observance  of  Lafayette  Day. 
Members  of  the  Lafayette  Day  Committee  in 
Los  Angeles  secured  Four  million  Dollars  in  sub- 
scriptions to  the  second  Liberty  Loan. 

Seattle:  A  large  gathering  which  included  American 
and  British  soldiers  and  sailors  and  a  group  of 
Spanish  war  veterans  heard  the  Lafayette  Day 
address  which  was  delivered  by  Judge  Thomas 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Seattle  and  New  Orleans 

Burke,  who  aroused  great  enthusiasm  when  he 
said: 

*We  are  again  in  a  conflict,  a  second  war 
for  independence  and  liberty.' 

On  behalf  of  the  French  residents  of  Seattle, 
Mr.  Marcel  Daly  delivered  a  response  to  Judge 
Burke's  address.  This  was  followed  by  tableaux 
depicting  the  career  of  Lafayette  arranged  by  Miss 
Jolivet,  supplemented  by  a  sketch  of  his  life  read 
by  Mrs.  Mack.  A  silk  badge  worn  on  the  occasion 
of  the  Lafayette  Memorial  services  held  in  this 
country  in  1834  was  sold  at  auction  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  French  War  Eelief . 

New  Orleans:  Lafayette  Day  was  celebrated  at  City 
Hall.  The  ceremonies  opened  with  the  singing  of 
the  Marseillaise  by  the  High  School  chorus  under 
the  leadership  of  Miss  Mary  Norra  and  closed  with 
the  singing  of  the  national  anthem.  The  Mayor  of 
New  Orleans,  Hon.  Martin  Behrman,  greeted  the 
Acting  Consul  General  of  France,  Mr.  Emile  F. 
Genoyer,  who,  in  responding,  dwelt  upon  the 
brotherhood  of  arms  which  again  united  France 
and  the  United  States  in  a  struggle  for  liberty. 
The  principal  address  was  delivered  by  Mr.  Andre 
Lafargue,  a  leader  of  the  bar  of  New  Orleans.  In 
the  course  of  his  address  he  said: 

*We  should  all  bear  in  mind  that  the  pres- 
ent world  conflict  is  being  carried  on  to  work 
out  the  salvation  of  the  great  democratic  insti- 
tutions which  Lafayette  and  Washington 
helped  to  so  firmly  establish  both  on  the  Euro- 
pean and  on  the  American  continents.  We  are 
waging  today  the  same  fight.  There  is  but 
one  difference — the  magnitude  of  the  conflict. 
In  1776  and  in  1798  the  struggles  that  took 
place  were  in  a  limited  area  and  as  between 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Boston  arid  New  Bedford 

the  inhabitants  of  a  nation.  Today  the  con- 
flict is  a  worldwide  one.  For  the  democratic 
nations  of  this  world  it  is  a  struggle  for  life  or 
death.  The  struggle  that  we  have  entered  into 
must  be  brought  to  a  successful  termination, 
and  with  help  of  God  and  through  the  instru- 
mentality of  the  boundless  resources  and  in- 
domitable will  of  this  nation  we  propose  to 
see  that  the  ideals  and  policies  that  Washing- 
ton and  Lafayette  labored  for  and  fought  for 
are  kept  intact  and  inviolate.  The  very  hap- 
piness of  the  world  calls  for  this.' 

Boston:  The  celebration  took  the  form  of  a  memorial 
service  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral.  On  the  cathedral 
porch  at  noon  four  trumpeters  and  a  vested  choir 
of  men  rendered  patriotic  hymns  including  the 
Marseillaise.  The  French  flag  was  displayed  on 
the  porch  and  carried  in  the  procession.  The  serv- 
ice was  attended  by  the  French  Consular  Agent 
J.  C.  J.  Flamand  and  representatives  of  the  pa- 
triotic societies  of  Boston.  The  address,  *^The 
Turning  of  the  Tide"  was  delivered  by  the  Rev. 
Edward  M.  Sullivan. 

The  French  High  Commission  was  represented 
by  Mr.  Francois  Monod,  who  was  the  guest  of 
honor. 

New  Bedford:  The  exercises  were  held  in  the  High 
School  Auditorium  which  was  decorated  with 
French,  British  and  American  flags.  The  audience 
was  large  and  enthusiastic.  Mayor  Ashley  pre- 
sided and  with  him  on  the  platform,  besides  Mr. 
Monod,  were  Captain  Scott,  commandant  at  Fort 
Rodman,  John  Morris,  the  Rev.  W.  B.  Geogeghan, 
Charles  F.  Archambault  and  Julius  Berkowitz. 
The  *^ Marseillaise''  having  been  played  Mayor 
Ashley  officially  welcomed  Mr.  Monod  on  behalf 
of  the  City.    Amid  great  applause  he  exclaimed, 

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Lafayette  Bay  in  New  Bedford 

referring  to  the  struggles  for  liberty  in  the  days 
of  Lafayette,  now  renewed:  *^ Should  we  not  today 
bend  every  effort  to  assist  the  people  who  are  now 
fighting  the  fight  we  were  fighting  at  that  timeT' 
The  Rev.  "William  B.  Geogeghan  followed  the 
Mayor  and  spoke  inspiringly:  ^'This  is  the  su- 
preme conflict,'^  he  said,  ^'between  organized  ma- 
terialism represented  by  the  central  powers,  and 
ideality  as  expressed  by  the  French  army  and  the 
devoted  spirit  of  the  French  people.  The  finest 
soldiery  of  the  world  are  the  French  soldiers.  How 
much  they  have  sacrificed!  And  now,  thank  God, 
we  have  heard  the  call  and  in  the  same  spirit  in 
which  Lafayette  came  to  America,  we  are  going 
across  to  battle  unselfishly,  to  make  the  world  safe 
for  democracy.  Let  us  do  all  we  can  to  help.  Let 
us  remember  that  we  are  now  united  forever  in  one 
great  federation,  which  means  to  extract  the  fangs 
from  militarism.''  The  Star  Spangled  Banner,  led 
by  Miss  Irene  0  'Leary  was  then  sung  by  the  audi- 
ence and  after  a  brief  address  by  Mr.  C.  F.  Arch- 
ambault  on  behalf  of  the  French  residents,  Mr. 
Monod  was  introduced ;  he  received  an  ovation  and 
delivered  a  notable  address  from  which  the  follow- 
ing is  taken: 

*By  treachery,  by  dishonor,  by  the  viola- 
tion of  Belgian  neutrality,  the  German  armies 
had  been  enabled  to  invade  France.  Three 
years  ago  last  week,  at  the  end  of  August  1914, 
the  German  armies  were  rushing  forward  to 
seize  the  prize  of  43  years  of  aggressive  prep- 
aration. On  the  first  Sunday  of  September, 
the  sound  of  German  guns  was  audible  in 
Paris  and  the  tramp  of  the  barbarians  was 
within  a  few  miles  of  our  capital.  Not  unpre- 
pared, but  unavoidably  surprised  by  the  vio- 
lation of  Belgium,  the  French  armies  had 
been,  after  the  hardest  battles,  retreating  for 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Albany,  Baltimore  and  Washington 

two  weeks  till  they  could  reach  the  ground 
appointed  for  a  new  stand.  To-day,  three 
years  ago,  they  received  from  Marshal  Joffre 
the  orders  to  resume  the  attack;  on  this  morn- 
ing of  the  6th  of  September  they  started  the 
offensive  of  the  Marne  and  began,  along  the 
whole  front,  this  huge  and  heroic  battle  of  six 
days  duration  in  which  they  broke  to  peices 
the  criminal  designs  of  the  enemy.' 

Albany;  The  Albany  schools  observed  Lafayette  Day, 
the  arrangements  being  made  by  Superintendent 
of  Schools  C.  Edward  Jones,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
principals.  The  Albany  Argus  reports  that  the 
exercises,  which  consisted  in  the  reading  of  papers 
and  the  delivery  of  addresses  impressed  the  pupils 
with  the  significance  of  the  ^^ties  which  bind  this 
country  to  Lafayette  and  the  French  people  in  the 
present  crisis  as  they  did  when  France  was  our 
benefactor  in  the  Revolution. '* 

Baltimore:  Exercises  were  held  in  all  public  schools, 
where  '^the  story  of  Lafayette"  a  paper  specially 
prepared  for  the  Baltimore  Committee  for  the  Cele- 
bration of  Lafayette  Day,  of  which  DeCourcy  W. 
Thom  is  acting  chairman,  was  read  to  the  students. 
The  address  was  supplied  for  the  purposes  of  simi- 
lar exercises  in  all  county  public  schools  through- 
out Maryland. 

Washington:  The  celebration  took  place  under  the 
chairmanship  oi  Dr.  Joseph  G.  B.  Bulloch,  of  the 
Order  of  Washington,  and  General  H.  Odin  Lake, 
president  of  the  Army  and  Navy  Union.  Mr.  Al- 
fred B.  Dent,  acting  as  secretary  and  Mr.  Daniel 
Smith  Gordon,  as  treasurer.  The  principal  address 
was  made  by  Hon.  Jacob  E.  Meeker,  of  Missouri, 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives.  There 
was  a  large  attendance  which  included  the  repre- 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Charleston 

sentatives  of  the  Allied  Embassies  and  armies,  a 
number  of  French  officers  being  present  in  uniform. 

Charleston:  The  exercises  were  arranged  by  a  citizens 
committee  headed  by  H.  T.  Soubeyroux,  Esq.,  ap- 
pointed by  Mayor  Hyde,  who  presided,  and  were 
participated  in  by  a  large  audience  which  repeat- 
edly gave  voice  to  its  patriotic  fervor.  Addresses 
were  delivered  by  Hon.  J.  P.  K.  Bryan  of  the 
Charleston  Bar  and  the  Rev.  Florian  Vurpillot, 
rector  of  the  French  Huguenot  Church.  During 
the  exercises  Major  Gen.  W.  P.  Duvall,  U.  S.  A., 
Commander  of  the  Southeastern  Department,  with 
headquarters  in  Charleston,  was  introduced  by 
Major  Hyde  and  spoke  briefly.  He  said  that  the 
object  of  all  of  us  now  must  be  to  see  the  war 
through  "to  a  satisfactory  end,  successful  in  every 
way,  and  to  sustain  the  honor  and  dignity  of  our 
country.''  The  hall  was  decorated  with  the  stars 
and  stripes  and  the  tricolor  and  Miss  Dufort  sang 
the  "Marseillaise''. 

Mr.  Bryan  in  the  course  of  a  stirring  oration, 
said: 

*  Today,  when  we  send  our  own  sons  to 
France,  we  send  them  to  holy  ground, — to  the 
fields  where  France  fought  the  fight  for  free- 
dom for  all  the  world;  and  they  go  to  urge 
just  such  a  battle  as  their  forefathers  waged 
when  they  stood  with  Lafayette  and  con- 
quered and  gave  to  the  world  a  lesson  in  what 
liberty,  equality  and  fraternity  can  be.' 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Vurpillot  aroused  enthusiasm  re- 
peatedly, especially  when  he  said:  *The  entrance 
of  the  United  States  in  the  war  is  an  assurance 
that  the  heroes  of  the  Marne  did  not  die  in  vain.' 

At  the  conclusion  Monsignor  P.  L.  Duffy,  pro- 
nounced the  benediction.  A  committee  of  young 
girls  sold  tricolor  badges  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Lafayette  Fund. 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Allentoivn,  Pa.,  and  Saratoga 

Allentown,  Pa.:  Exercises  were  held  at  the  United 
States  Ambulance  Corps  Camp  at  Allentown, 
which  were  attended  by  over  1500  persons.  There 
was  a  camp  review  headed  by  Capt.  0.  K.  Keanan 
who  served  with  the  French  Army  at  Verdun.  The 
Lafayette  College  Unit  carrying  a  private  flag  of 
Lafayette  and  the  French  and  American  standards 
was  included  in  the  procession.  Addresses  were 
made  by  Majors  Clarence  P.  Franklin  and  H.  C. 
Hallett,  and  a  response  was  delivered  by  Mr.  Fon- 
tenieux,  French  Consul  at  Philadelphia,  who  was 
the  guest  of  honor. 

Saratoga:  The  session  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Bar  Association  which  took  place  on 
Lafayette  Day  was  presided  over  by  Hon.  Alton 
B.  Parker  who  presided  at  the  Lafayette  Day  ex- 
ercises in  New  York  last  year,  and  was  addressed 
by  Maitre  Gaston  de  Leval,  the  distinguished  Bel- 
gian barrister  who  defended  Edith  Cavell.  The 
French  and  British  governments  were  represented 
by  General  Vignal,  French  Military  iVttache,  and 
Commodore  Guy  Gaunt,  British  Naval  Attache, 
both  of  whom  attended  the  Lafayette  Day  exer- 
cises at  City  Hall,  New  York,  last  year.  Judge 
Parker  said: 

'Who  can  forget  the  noble  reply  of  the 
Belgian  Government  to  the  insolent  demands 
and  threats  of  Germany?  When  has  a  nation 
sacrificed  so  much  for  honor?  The  stor}^  of 
her  sufferings  has  been  borne  to  us  upon  every 
wind  that  blows  from  the  Atlantic,  until  the 
details  of  outrage  committed  upon  old  men, 
upon  women,  and  upon  children — of  the 
enslavement  of  her  able-bodied  and  their  de- 
portation to  Germany  to  labor  for  their 
enemies — of  her  spoliation  by  fines  levied 
upon  towns,  cities,  banks  and  individuals — of 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Saratoga 

the  destruction  of  her  ancient  and  beautiful 
churches  and  public  buildings,  sicken  our 
hearts.  But  the  time  is  soon  to  come  when  her 
wonderful  service  to  humanity  will  be  the 
theme  of  the  great  masters  of  both  prose  and 
verse,  for  she  held  the  German  armies  in  check 
while  France  and  England  made  ready,  with 
her  assistance  also,  to  stop  them  at  the  Marne. 

'The  Battle  of  the  Marne!  What  a  place 
it  will  have  in  history,  marking  as  it  does,  the 
beginning  of  the  end  of  wars  waged  for  the 
purpose  of  robbing  peoples  of  their  territories 
and  making  them  unwilling  subjects  of  un- 
friendly powers.  This  day  is  its  anniversary. 
So  too,  is  it  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
General  Lafayette  which  in  this  country  we 
have  of  late  years  been  widely  celebrating. 
This  year,  under  the  leadership  of  our  Lafay- 
ette Day  National  Committee,  we  are  cele- 
brating both  anniversaries  together  and  as  we 
do  so,  we  rejoice  that  we  are  at  last  to  pay  our 
debt  to  France,  for  Lafayette,  Eochambeau 
and  the  Arm.y  and  the  Navy  she  sent  us  w^hen 
we  needed  them  sorely. 

'Is  it  not  wonderful  that,  one  hundred  and 
thirty  years  from  the  time  we  secured  our 
freedom  from  England  with  France's  assis- 
tance, more  than  one  hundred  of  which  are 
years  of  increasing  friendliness  and  confidence 
between  all  these  three  nations — evidenced  in 
many  ways,  but  in  part  by  an  unwatched  and 
unguarded  boundary,  the  longest  in  the  world 
— we  find  Great  Britain,  France  and  the  Unit- 
ed States  side  by  side  in  a  mighty  struggle  to 
secure  in  the  future  for  all  the  nations  in  the 
world,  great  and  small,  including  our  own, 
freedom  to  develop  each  in  its  own  way  and 
without  fear  of  being  pounced  upon  by  a  larg- 
er nation  wishing  as  I  have  said  to  steal  her 
territory  and  make  her  inhabitants  unwilling 
subjects  of  an  unfriendly  power.     Surely,  it 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Hudson,  N,  Y, 

is  true  that  ^  God  moves  in  a  Mysterious  Way 
his  Wonders  to  Perform/ 

Hudson,  N.  Y.:  Prominent  masons  from  all  parts  of 
the  State  were  guests  of  the  Lafayette  Comman- 
dery,  Knights  Templar,  at  a  celebration  of  the 
double  anniversary,  which  happened  to  be  also  that 
of  the  founding  of  the  commandery,  in  September 
1824  on  the  occasion  of  Lafayette's  visit  to  Hud- 
son. A  parade  opened  the  ceremonies;  a  meeting 
was  then  held  in  St.  John's  Hall,  followed  by  a 
Lafayette  Day  banquet  attended  by  more  than  300, 
which  was  addressed  b}^  Charles  S.  Williams,  sup- 
erintendent of  the  public  schools  of  Hudson;  Will- 
iam Graf,  a  past  commander  of  Lafayette  com- 
mandery; the  Eev.  R.  L  Watkins,  pastor  of  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Hudson; 
Charles  H.  Armitage  of  Albany,  a  past  comman- 
der; Charles  0.  Kuhnert,  senior  past  commander 
of  Morton  commandery,  No.  4  of  New  York  city; 
Randall  C.  Saunders,  commander  of  Lafayette 
commandery,  and  Grand  Warden  George  C.  Han- 
ford,  of  Syracuse.  Mr.  Graf  gave  a  history  of 
Lafayette  commandery.  When  General  Lafayette 
on  his  second  coming  to  the  United  States  in  1824, 
visited  Hudson  to  be  feted  and  honored  by  an 
elaborate  demonstration,  Mr.  Graf  said,  a  group  of 
Masons,  who  were  instituting  an  encampment  of 
Knights  Templar,  enthusiastically  appropriated 
the  name  of  the  distinguished  French  patriot  and 
instituted  what  is  now  Lafayette  commandery 
on  September  6.  In  his  address  on  the  life  of  La- 
fayette, Mr.  Williams  said: 

*The  same  passion  for  human  rights  which 
drove  Lafayette  to  America,  is  impelling  the 
American  youth  today  to  take  an  important 
part  in  the  battle   against   autocracy.     The 

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Lafayette  Bay  in  Irvington,  N.  Z.,  £  Wheeling,  W,  Va. 

American  Revolution  produced  two  world  citi- 
zens of  a  distinct  and  hitherto  unknown  type, 
Washington  and  Lafayette.  Close  friends 
while  life  lasted,  both  champions  of  liberty, 
both  loving  their  fellowmen  with  a  passion 
that  precluded  and  excluded  selfish  considera- 
tions, their  names  will  ever  be  linked  together 
as  the  flower  of  that  memorial  conflict. 

*We  should  resolve  to  dedicate  our  own 
lives  to  the  perpetuation  of  that  same  liberty 
for  which  Lafayette  fought  and  which  today 
is  threatened  in  the  cauldron  of  war  by  power- 
ful and  cruel  adversaries,  that  government  of 
the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people 
shall  not  perish  from  the  earth. ' 

Irvington,  N.  Y.:  The  Lafayette  Day  exercises,  held 
in  Town  Hall,  were  presided  by  Mr.  R.  G.  Aber- 
crombie.  The  main  address  was  delivered  by  Mr. 
Lawrence  Godkin  of  the  New  York  Committee  and 
the  Rev.  George  M.  Whitmore;  Dr.  Carroll  Dun- 
ham, Messrs.  R.  V.  Lewis  and  K.  D.  Conger  also 
spoke.  Dr.  Finley's  poem,  ^'September  6th'' 
which  appeared  in  the  Outlook  last  year,  was  read, 
the  ^^Marsaillaise"  and  ^^Star  Spangled  Banner'' 
were  sung  as  also  a  new  song  composed  especially 
for  Lafayette  Day,  entitled  *' Along  the  Brandy- 
wine.  ' ' 

Wheeling,  W.  Va.:  Lafayette  Day  was  celebrated  at 
Wheeling,  W.  Va.  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution.  The  meet- 
ing was  arranged  by  Mrs.  G.  A.  Bishop,  chairman 
and  was  held  in  the  hall  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  which 
had  been  decorated  for  the  occasion  with  French 
and  American  flags.  The  proceedings  were  opened 
by  the  playing  of  a  march  composed  in  1824  on 
the  occasion  of  Lafayette's  visit  to  this  country. 
Addresses  were  made  by  Mrs.  Charles  Flanigan, 

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Lafayette  Day  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va, 

Mrs.  Blanche  Dunlevy  Steamrod  and  Mrs.  John 
B.  Garden,  regent  of  the  chapter,  as  also  Mrs. 
Charles  J.  Milton. 

Lafayette  Day  was  observed  in  many  other  places 
from  which  detailed  accounts  have  not  yet  been  re- 
ceived including,  Davenport,  Iowa;  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
whose  Lafayette  Day  Committee  under  the  chairman- 
ship of  Mr.  James  L.  Davison  raised  over  $250.  by  the 
sale  of  tricolor  badges  for  the  benefit  of  the  Lafayette 
Fund,  similar  to  those  sold  in  New  York  under  the 
chairmanship  of  Mrs.  Gertrude  Atherton.  These 
badges  were  also  a  feature  of  the  celebrations  at  Irv- 
ington,  N.  Y.,  Davenport,  Iowa,  Charleston,  S.  C,  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  and  in  other  cities.  Interest  in  Lafayette 
Day  has  been  evidenced  through  an  increase  of  contri- 
butions to  the  Lafayette  Fund,  which  sends  Comfort 
Kits  to  the  French  soldiers  at  the  front. 


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'* LAFAYETTE,  HERE  WE  ARE!'* 

A  Test  of  American  Sentiment  About  the  Wab 

{Reprint  of  an  Article  hy  Maurice  Leon 
in  The  Outlook  for  October  17,  1917) 

The  celebration  on  September  6  of  the  double  an- 
niversary of  Lafayette  and  the  Marne,  detailed  ac- 
counts of  which  have  appeared  heretofore  in  The  Out- 
look, served,  among  other  things,  to  test  American 
sentiment  about  the  war.  The  value  of  that  test  will 
be  understood  when  it  is  borne  in  mind  that  within  the 
space  of  two  or  three  days  the  press  throughout  the 
country  commented  editorially  on  the  theme  suggested 
by  the  double  anniversary.  On  the  eve  of  Lafayette 
Day  the  New  York  '' Tribune"  had  published  an  ac- 
count by  an  American  woman  living  in  Paris  of  Gen- 
eral Pershing's  visit  to  Lafayette's  tomb  in  the  Picpus 
Cemetery  in  Paris.  The  three  words  spoken  by  Gen- 
eral Pershing  on  that  occasion,  "Lafayette,  nous  voiW 
(Lafayette,  here  we  are),  quoted  by  her,  spread  like 
wildfire  through  this  country.  Out  of  hundreds  of  ar- 
ticles published  on  or  about  Lafayette  Day  which  have 
been  collected  by  the  Lafayette  Day  National  Com- 
mittee to  be  forwarded  to  France,  there  are  well  over 
a  hundred  editorials,  many  of  which  quote  General 
Pershing's  words  as  America's  message  on  Lafayette 
Day.  No  one  can  read  these  editorials  without  realiz- 
ing the  existence  of  an  overwhelming  American  senti- 
ment in  favor  of  a  peace  founded  upon  victory  in  the 
field. 

Judging  by  its  extensive  reproduction  through  the 
country,  one  of  the  most  noteworthy  editorials  pub- 
lished on  Lafayette  Day  is  the  following  brief  leader 
of  the  New  York  ^' Sun:" 

to  FRANCE 

To-day  is  the  one  hundred  and  sixtieth  anni- 
versary of  the  birth  of  Lafayette,  friend  of  the 

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*' Lafayette  J  Here  We  Are!'' 

American  colonies.  It  is  the  third  anniversary 
of  the  beginning  of  the  battle  of  the  Marne,  the 
pivotal  conflict  of  a  war  still  in  progress. 

Lafayette,  aged  nineteen,  landed  at  George- 
town, South  Carolina,  in  the  spring  of  1777,  was 
commissioned  a  major-general  on  July  31,  and 
was  wounded  in  rallying  American  troops  at  the 
Brandywine,  September  11.  He  brought  with  him 
to  these  shores  companions,  money,  and  powerful 
influence. 

American  wealth  and  resources  were  placed  at 
the  service  of  France  in  the  spring  of  1917,  and 
American  troops  landed  in  France  early  in  the 
summer  of  1917. 

France,  who  sent  us  a  man  in  our  hour  of  need, 
we  shall  send  you  a  million  men,  if  wanted,  in 
your  hour  of  greatest  need.  For  the  millions  of 
dollars  you  sent  us  we  shall  send  you  thousands 
of  millions. 

For  the  victory  you  won  for  us  at  the  Marne 
we  shall  give  you  a  greater  victory  nearer  the 
Rhine. 

General  Pershing's  words  furnished  the  title  and 
keynote  of  the  New  York  ^'Tribune's"  editorial: 

Lafayette,  nous  voila!  There  could  be  no  more 
fitting  phrase  to  express  the  sentiment  of  the  peo- 
ple of  the  United  States,  whose  sons  are  now  in 
France  on  Lafayette 's  birthday. 

The  same  note  is  struck  in  the  New  York  '^ Globe" 
under  the  heading:  ^'Lafayette,  Joffre,  Pershing:" 

The  real  commemoration  that  gives  grip  to 
our  grasp  of  the  hands  of  the  Frenchmen  we  re- 
joice with,  that  gives  meaning  to  our  words,  that 
steadies  our  eyes  as  we  look  into  theirs,  is  the 
assembling  of  our  armies  and  our  fleets,  our  camps, 
on  the  battlefields  of  France. 

Even  the  financial  press  of  the  metropolis  respond- 

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''Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!'' 

ed  to  the  call  of  Lafayette  Day,  as  witness  the  follow- 
ing from  ^^ Financial  America;'* 

Out  of  the  heart  of  that  son  of  France  America 
gathered  hope,  high  resolve,  victory. 

Out  of  the  gratitude  that  is  strong,  that  never 
will  wither  or  die  in  the  heart  of  America,  the 
people  of  the  greatest  of  republics  will  pour  men, 
money,  munitions  to  free  France,  to  repay  France, 
to  make  France  know  the  debt  America  never  can 
repay  in  full. 

The  New  York  *^ Times''  paid  a  deserved  tribute  to 
the  men  w^ho  fought  as  American  volunteers  in  the  Al- 
lied armies : 

All  through  the  war  Clancey,  of  Boston  and 
Texas,  carried  an  American  flag  in  his  kit,  and 
when  he  heard  the  news  that  his  country  had  at 
last  come  up  to  join  him  he  brought  it  out  and  car- 
ried it  ''over  the  top"  at  Viny  Ridge  and  fell 
w^ounded  with  it  in  his  hand.  The  west  front  is 
dotted  with  Clancys.  They  are  the  men  who  re- 
turned Lafayette's  visit. 

Across  the  East  Eiver  the  response  was  full  of  mar- 
tial fervor.    Says  the  Brooklyn  ''Citizen:" 

Yes,  the  war  will  go  on  until  Germany  is 
brought  to  her  knees  and  made  to  give  up  her  con- 
quests. She  lost  the  war  when  her  armies  failed 
at  the  Marne,  and  all  her  subsequent  victories  in 
the  Balkans  and  in  Russia  have  brought  her  no 
nearer  to  a  decision.  The  decision  inevitably  will 
have  to  come  on  the  western  front,  where  the  might 
and  powder  of  France  and  Great  Britain  and  our 
own  country  confront  her. 

The  sentiment  of  the  up-State  papers  is  not  less 
emphatic.  Perhaps  the  briefest,  certainly  not  the  least 
significant,  is  that  of  the  Elmira,  New  York,  "Adver- 
tiser : ' ' 

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^'Lafayette J  Here  We  Are!'' 

Lafayette,  here  we  are!  Why  say  more?  In 
that  one  brief  sentence  General  Pershing  symbol- 
ized the  attitude  of  all  America. 

The  interest  aroused  by  Lafayette  Day  in  Pennsyl- 
vania found  its  expression  in  the  exercises  at  Indepen- 
dence Hall,  Philadelphia,  which  were  participated  in  by 
the  French  Ambassador.  The  press  of  the  entire  State 
gives  us  the  thoughts  of  the  people  of  Pennsylvania  on 
September  6.  From  these  expressions  of  the  public 
thought  of  the  State  we  select,  as  typical,  four. 

The  Philadelphia  ^^ Public  Ledger:'' 

But  now  the  opportunity  is  ours,  and  in  a 
measure  the  cry  that  rang  out  from  American 
throats  recently  at  the  tomb  of  Lafayette  in 
France,  '^Lafayette,  nous  voila!"  is  the  beginning 
of  the  repayment. 

The  Philadelphia  ^'Eecord:" 

We  are  hurrying  our  troops  to  France  to  aid 
in  the  work  of  civilization  and  human  freedom  by 
rescuing  it  from  the  invading  and  destroying  Ger- 
mans. Here  yesterday  Ambassador  Jusserand, 
who  has  endeared  himself  to  the  American  people, 
received  an  ovation  on  his  arrival  to  aid  in  the 
suitable  commemoration  of  the  service  of  Lafay- 
ette, not  alone  to  America,  but  to  mankind.  We 
salute  our  ancient  friend  and  benefactor,  the 
French  nation. 

The  Washington  '* Reporter :'' 

A  great  chapter  is  being  written  in  1917,  when 
men  from  the  land  of  Lafayette  have  reminded  us 
of  their  early  friendship  and  thousands  of  Ameri- 
can soldiers  are  on  the  soil  of  France  to  repay  the 
debt  created  sevenscore  years  ago. 

The  Pittsburgh  ^^ Telegraph:'' 

France  is  now  our  companion  in  arms,  as  she 

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''Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!'' 

was  nearly  a  century  and  a  half  ago.  Our  soldiers 
are  encamped  upon  her  soil  as  were  French  sol- 
diers upon  ours  in  those  dark  days  of  the  Eevolu- 
tion. 

Some  of  the  New  England  papers  take  the  occasion 
to  redefine  with  clearness  the  issue  between  freedom 
and  despotism  which  has  lagain  joined  France  and 
America  on  the  battlefield.  Thus  the  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, "Post,''  quoting  in  full  the  New  York 
''Sun's"  editorial  ''To  France,"  adds: 

Let  America  remember  that  in  sending  men 
and  money  to  France  she  strikes  not  only  for  the 
France  which  struck  for  us,  but  strikes  for  Amer- 
ica as  well,  for  America  stands  or  falls  as  a  free 
state  according  as  the  issue  now  being  fought  out 
in  Europe  is  decided  there. 

To  the  same  effect  the  Ansonia,  Connecticut,  "Sen- 
tinel:" 

Those  who  sin  with  open  eyes  must  pay.  That 
is  the  lesson  of  Lafayette  Day,  and  it  is  a  lesson 
that  the  kindly  people  of  the  United  States  must 
learn  by  heart  in  the  dark  days  that  are  coming. 
Half-way  measures  with  the  deadly  disease  of 
frightfulness  are  worse  than  useless.  The  germ 
of  paganism,  brutality,  and  deceit  must  be  eradi- 
cated utterly  before  the  world  can  be  well  again. 

By  no  journal  is  this  issue  stated  with  greater  clear- 
ness, by  none  are  the  slackers  repudiated  with  more 
passionate  indignance  than  by  the  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, "Star;"  under  the  title  Lafayette  and  the  Pres- 
ent War"  it  uses  these  plain  words: 

Sacrifice  ad  suffering  gave  birth  to  our  great 
Nation,  and  bloodshed  was  a  necessary  adjunct  to 
its  final  accomplishment.  In  the  present  crisis  the 
same  elements  are  necessary  in  order  to  obtain 

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^'Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!" 

the  desired  results.  The  slacker,  by  whatever 
name  he  desires  to  be  called,  has  not  done  his  duty, 
and  it  would  appear  that  the  United  States  is  bur- 
dened with  more  than  its  share  of  this  class  of 
scorpions.  They  stand  in  the  same  position  in  our 
struggle  as  did  the  Tories  that  harassed  Wash- 
ington's army.  Whether  they  are  active  pro-Ger- 
man sympathizers,  pacifists,  or  militant  suffra- 
gists, their  temporary  influence  has  the  same  ef- 
fect. In  the  light  of  the  golden  sunlight  democ- 
racy must  win  and  Americans  must  learn,  to  its 
fullest  extent,  the  lesson  of  sacrifice  and  suffering 
that  characterized  the  United  States'  stand  before 
the  nations  as  *^ Liberty  Enlightening  the  World.'' 

Let  those  who  claim  that  the  war  is  ^'not  popular" 
in  the  Middle  West  take  note  of  the  following  expres- 
sions. 

St.  Louis,  Missouri,  ** Democrat:" 

The  American  soldiers  in  France  preparing  to 
aid  the  French  in  the  world's  greatest  war  in  de- 
fense of  liberty  will  bring  to  the  celebration  of 
Lafayette's  birthday  a  passionate  devotion  to  his 
memory  which  will  make  the  French  proud  to  own 
him  as  a  son. 

The  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  *'Star"  sees  our  present 
as  well  as  our  historic  debt  to  France : 

Without  Lafayette  the  history  of  this  countr}^ 
would  have  been  changed — less  glorious  than  it  is 
we  may  be  sure.  Without  the  battle  of  the  Marne 
and  its  results  we  might  be  fighting  Germany  on 
our  own  soil  now^  instead  of  on  foreign  soil;  or, 
indeed,  the  fight  might  well  have  been  over  and 
we  a  subjugated  people,  for  we  were  in  poor  fettle 
to  make  such  a  fight  as  we  would  have  been  called 
upon  to  make. 

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''Lafayette J  Here  We  Are!'' 

The  Toledo,  Ohio,  ^'Bee^'  shows  what  we  ought  to 
do  and  can  do  to  help  pay  the  double  debt : 

It  is  fitting  also  that  all  Americans  make  re- 
solve that  in  so  far  as  in  them  lies  they  will  help 
this  country  in  its  task  of  smashing  Germany, 
which  wantonly  invaded  and  ruthlessly  ravaged 
the  homeland  of  the  great  Lafayette. 

So  also  does  the  Cleveland,  Ohio,  ''Press:" 

In  this  year  of  1917  we  are  preparing  in  some 

modicum  to  pay  the  immeasurable  debt  we  owe  to 

France  and  to  Frenchmen.     Even  as  they  helped 

us  fight  for  liberty  then,  we  are  preparing  to  stand 

.  by  their  side  in  the  fight  for  liberty  now. 

The  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  ''Gazette:'' 

It  is  very  appropriate  that  the  leading  metrop- 
olis of  this  country  should  have  taken  notice  of 
the  birth  anniversary  of  Lafayette  with  proper 
ceremonies  Thursday,  for  the  succor  that  he 
brought  us  in  the  darkest  days  of  our  struggle  for 
National  existence  w^ill  soon  be  adequately  repaid 
when  a  million  Americans  under  the  Stars  and 
Stripes  line  up  beside  the  compatriots  of  Lafayette 
in  France. 

The  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  "Nonpareil''  speaks  vol- 
umes in  a  dozen  words : 

There  '11  never  be  a  La  FoUette  day  to  compare 
with  Lafayette  Day. 

The  Omaha,  Nebraska,  "World-Herald"  foresees 
an  international  Liberty  Day  in  the  future: 

And  it  will  be  strange  if  one  of  the  heritages  of 
the  present  world  struggle  is  not  a  day  which  all 
the  nations  engaged  in  combating  the  powers  of 
darkness  will  celebrate  in  common — a  day  larger, 

[99] 


''Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!'' 

it  may  be,  than  any  national  holiday,  signifying  a 
patriotism  that  has  become  extra-national,  the 
testimony  to  a  common  triumph  and  a  common 
ideal. 

The  Waterloo,  Iowa,  '* Courier''  seems  to  be  in  no 
doubt  as  to  what  the  war  is  about: 

Now  our  soldiers  are  on  the  soil  of  France,  as 
Lafayette  and  his  men  came  to  America,  and  we 
are  going  to  help  free  France  from  the  grip  of  the 
invader,  and  from  the  menace  of  autocracy  and 
militarism,  though  in  doing  so  it  must  not  be  for- 
gotten that  we  are  fighting  our  own  battle  and  that 
of  all  other  free  peoples.  So  the  spirit  of  Lafay- 
ette is  alive  to-day,  and  it  is  inspiring  the  soldiers 
of  France  and  the  soldiers  of  America  in  their 
battle  side  by  side  against  the  *^  natural  foe  to 
liberty. '* 

The  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  ^' Journal' '  is  not  less 
clear  on  the  subject: 

America  did  not  know  when  the  battle  of  the 
Marne  was  fought  that  its  own  liberty  was  at  stake, 
but  it  knows  now.  It  knows  also,  and  should  never 
be  allowed  to  forget,  the  heroic  service  of  the  Mar- 
quis de  Lafayette  at  Brandywine,  Monmouth  and 
Yorktown. 

The  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  ^'Tribune"  perceived 
without  difficulty  the  solidarity  of  free  nations  in  the 
present  struggle : 

This  is  a  good  year  and  time  to  express  with 
special  emphasis  American  appreciation  of  and 
gratitude  for  the  distinguished  service  by  Lafay- 
ette and  by  France  in  making  victory  possible  for 
the  colonists.  It  will  be  a  good  day  also  to  pro- 
claim that  old  scores  with  Great  Britain  are  closed 
and  that  a  new  book  of  democratic  comradeship 
has  been  opened  in  which  all  liberty-loving  peoples 

[100] 


"Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!'' 

may  enter  their  pledge  to  help  make  the  world  a 
place  of  enduring  peace, 
plexion  of  the  world. 

The  Pacific  Coast  made  itself  heard.  Its  sentiment 
is  unmistakably  and  well  expressed  by  the  Los  Angeles, 
California,  ^* Express:^' 

For  nearly  a  century  and  a  half  our  speech  in 
America  has  evidenced  our  gratitude.  Now  let 
our  acts  in  France  attest  the  sincerity  of  our 
words. 

Southern  appreciation  of  the  meaning  of  Lafayette 
Day  is  emphatic. 

The  Atlanta,  Georgia,  ''Constitution''  (by  James 
A.  HoUomon) : 

From  the  White  House,  Tuesday,  President 
Wilson  referred  to  the  new  selectman  as  the  ''sol- 
dier of  freedom."  It  is  a  coincidence  that  this 
new  soldier  of  freedom  should  be  born  into  mili- 
tary life  on  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  one 
whose  spirit  of  democracy  is  so  firmly  fixed  in 
every  American  institution,  and  that  side  by  side 
with  the  soldiers  of  Lafayette's  native  and  be- 
loved France^  they  shall  fight  for  the  perpetuation 
of  the  same  institutions  that  Lafayette,  the  man. 

The  voice  of  the  Northwest  was  heard  on  Lafayette 
Day,  whose  message  the  Seattle,  Washington,  "Times" 
translated  thus: 

In  part,  Americans  can  repay  that  debt  by 
honoring  the  name  and  memory  of  Lafayette  next 
Thursday.  In  greater  measure  they  can  repay  by 
sustaining  the  Government  in  all  its  efforts  to 
beat  down  the  foe  who  menaces  democracy  in 
France. 

The  Salt  Lake,  Utah,  "Tribune:" 

At  no  time  since  the  Revolution  have  France 

[101] 


''Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!'' 

and  the  United  States  been  in  closer  contact  or  in 
greater  harmony,  and  in  1776,  as  in  1917,  they  were 
working  for  the  freedom  of  mankind,  although  at 
that  time  no  one  could  have  predicted  the  immense 
influence  the  erection  of  a  new  republic  on  this  side 
of  the  Atlantic  would  have  on  the  political  corn- 
helped  establish  in  sensational  victories  that 
marked  his  path  from  Yarmouth  to  Yorktown. 

The  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  '* Record:" 

This  year,  therefore,  in  the  name  and  for  the 
sake  of  the  soldiers  that  we  are  sending  across 
the  sea,  let  us  commemmorate  the  name  and  the 
fame  of  Lafayette,  and,  above  all,  the  generous 
and  exalted  principles  for  which  he  fought  and 
of  which  his  name  is  significant. 

Charleston,  South  Carolina,  which  held  a  beautiful 
celebration  on  Lafayette  Day,  spoke  through  her  press 
with  fervent  enthusiasm.  The  following  is  from  the 
Charleston  ''News  and  Courier:" 

For  us  to-day  a  new  significance  surrounds  the 
name  of  Lafayette.  He  was  a  champion  of  those 
same  principles  of  freedom  for  which  America  has 
now  drawn  the  sword;  and  he  came  to  us  in  the 
moment  of  our  great  need  from  France — from  this 
same  glorious,  effulgent  France  by  whose  side  we 
now  stand  in  another  fight  for  freedom. 

General  Pershing's  words  were  not  alone  America's 
message  to  France ;  they  were  also  a  clarion  call  heard 
throughout  America.  The  response  of  the  country  to 
the  commander  of  the  American  expeditionary  forces 
in  France  is  summarized  in  these  words  spoken  by  Mr. 
John  Quinn,  a  member  of  the  New  York  bar,  American 
born,  but  of  distinguished  Irish  ancestry,  at  the  La- 
fayette Monument  in  Union  Square  on  the  morning  of 
September  6: 

[102] 


*' Lafayette,  Here  We  Are!*' 

General  Pershing  a  few  days  ago,  at  the  tomb 
of  Lafayette,  in  France,  spoke  these  stirring 
words:  ''Lafayette,  no^is  voila"  (Lafayette,  we 
are  here).  To  that  I  add  these  words,  "Lafay- 
ette, we  are  sending  more  and  yet  more  of  our 
bravest  and  our  best  to  France.  They  are  com- 
ing, coming — a  million  strong!'* 


[103] 


LAFAYETTE  DAY  AND  THE  PRESS 

Among  the  articles  devoted  to  Lafayette  Day  1917 
are  those  which  appeared  in  the  following  publications, 
clippings  of  which  are  being  forwarded  to  the  French 
Government  through  its  Ambassador  here,  in  a  book 
prescribed  on  behalf  of  the  Lafayette  Day  National 
Committee  and  the  Lafayette  Day  Citizens'  Committee 
of  New  York: 


Alabama: 

Birmingham  News 
Mobile  Register 

Arizona: 

Tucson  Star 
Yuma  Sun 

Arkansas : 

Hot  Springs  Sentinel  Record 
Little  Rock  Gazette 
Pine   Bluff  Graphic 

California: 

Bakersfield  Echo 
Eureka  Times 
Los  Angeles  Examiner 
"  "         Express 

"  "         Evening  Herald 

"  "        Times 

Tribune 
Sacramento   Bee 

Union 
San  Diego  Tribune 

"      ^  Union 
San  Francisco  Bulletin 
Call 
"  "         Chronicle 

"  "         Examiner 

Woodland   Democrat 

Colorado: 

Colorado   Springs   Gazette 
Denver  Post 

Connecticut: 

Ansonia  Sentinel 
Bridgeport  American 
Farmer 
"  Telegram 


Bristol  Press 
Hartford  Courant 
Post 

"  Times 

Meriden  Journal 

"        Record 
Middletown  Press 
Naugatauk  News 
New  Britain  Herald 
New  Haven  Courrier 

"  "        Times-Leader 

New  London  Telegraph 
Norwich  Courier 
Waterbury  Democrat 
"  Republican 

Winsted  Herald 

"         Leader 

Delaware: 

Wilmington  Every  Evening 
"  Journal 

"  News 

District  of  Columbia: 

Washington  Herald 
Post 
Star 
Times 

Florida: 

Jacksonville  Times 
Key  West  Journal 
Tampa  Tribune 

Georgia: 

Atlanta  Constitution 
Augusta   Chronicle 

Illinois: 

Bloomington  Daily  Bulletin 


[104] 


Lafayette  Day  and  the  Press 


Chicago  Examiner 
Herald 
"        Journal 
"        News 
Post 
"        Tribune 
Jacksonville  Journal 
Kankakee  Republican 
Quincy  Herald 
"       Journal 
Pekin  Times 
Peoria  Journal 
"       Transcript 

Indiana: 

Anderson  Bulletin 

Herald 
Evansville  Courrier 

"  Journal-News 

Fort  Wayne  Gazette 
Sentinel 
Gosher  News-Times 
Indianapolis    Star 
Richmond  Palladium 
South  Bend  News-Times 
Terra  Haute  Star 
Washington  Herald 

Iowa: 

Council  Bluffs  Nonpareil 
Marshalltown  Republican 
Mason  City  Globe-Gazette 
Sioux  City  Journal 
Waterloo   Courier 

Kansas: 

Salina  Journal 
Wichita  Eagle 

Kentucky: 

Henderson  Journal 
Louisville  Herald 
"         Times 

Louisiana: 

New  Orleans  States 

"        Times  Picayune 
Shreveport  Times 

Maine : 

Augusta  Journal 
Bangor  Commercial 

News 
Lewiston  Journal 


Portland  Argus 
"        Express 
Press 


Maryland: 

Baltimore  American 
News 
Star 
Sun 
Cumberland  Alleganian 
Times 

Massachusetts: 

Boston  Advertiser 
"        American 
Daily  Globe 
Eve. 
Herald 
Post 
Record 
"         Transcript 
Traveler 
Brockton  Enterprise 

"        Times 
Clinton  Item 
Fall  River  Eve.  News 

"        "     Herald 
Haverhill  Gazette 
Holyoke  Telegram 
"        Transcript 
Lowell  Eve.  Citizen 
"        Morn'g  " 
"        Sun 
Lynn  Item 

"       Telegram 
New  Bedford  Mercury 
Times 
Standard 
Springfield  Eve.  Union 

Union 
Worcester  Gazette 
Post 
"  Telegram 

Michigan : 

Calumet  News 
Detroit  Free  Press 

"        Journal 

**       Times 
Flint  Journal 
Jackson  Press 
Marquette  Chronicle 
Menominee  Leader 
Muskegan  Chronicle 


[105] 


Lafayette  Day  and  the  Press 


Minnesota: 

Albert  Lea  Tribune 
Duluth  Herald 
Maukato  Free  Press 
Minneapolis  Journal 
"  Tribune 

Northfield  News 
Rochester  Record 
St.  Paul  Dispatch 
"       "      Pioneer-Press 

Mississippi: 
Meridan  Star 

Missouri: 

Kansas  City  Globe 
"      Journal 
"      Star 
St.  Joseph  Gazette 
"         "        News-Press 
"         "        Observer 
St.  Louis  Democrat 

Post  Dispatch 
"      Star 
"        "      Times 

Montana: 

Anaconda  Standard 
Helena  Independent 
Missoula  Missoulian 

Nebraska: 

Omaha  World-Herald 

Nevada: 
Reno  Gazette 
"       Journal 

New  Hampshire: 
Manchester  Leader 

New  Jersey: 

Atlantic  City  Press 
Bayonne  Review 
Camden  Telegram 
Hoboken  Observer 
Jersey  City  Journal 
Newark  Evening  Star 

News 
Passaic       " 

Herald  ^ 
Patterson  Guardian 

News 
Trenton  Gazette 


New  Mexico: 

Albuquerque  Journal 
East  Los  Vegos  Optic 

New  York: 

Albany  Argus 
"        Journal 
"        Knickerbocker 
Auburn  Citizen 
Brooklyn  Citizen 

"  Daily  Eagle 

"  Standard   Union 

"  Times 

Buffalo  Commercial 
"         Courrier 
"         Evening  Times 
"         News 
Elmira  Advertiser 
Jamestown  Post 
Kingston  Express 

Leader 
Long  Island  City  Star 
New  York  City  American 
Call 

Commercial 
Evening   Sun 

World 
Financial    Amer. 
Globe 
Harlem  Home  News 
Jour,   of   Com. 
Journal 
Mail 
Post 
Sun 

Telegram 
Times 
Tribune 
World 
Oswego  Pattadium 
Rochester  Chronicle 

"  Post  Express 

Schenectady  Gazette 
Syracuse  Herald 

"        Post  Standard 
Troy  Evening  Record 

'•      Times 
Utica  Herald  Dispatch 

"       Observer 
Watertown  Times 
Yonkers  Statesman 

North  Carolina: 
Charlotte  Democrat 
"  Observer 

Greenville  Reflector 


[106] 


Lafayette  Day  and  the  Press 


Ohio: 

Akron  Times 
Bucyrus  Forum 
Bellefontaine  Index 
Cincinnati  Enquirer 
Post 
Star 
"  Tribune 

Cleveland  News 
Press 
Columbus  Citizen 
"  Despatch 

State  Journal 
Coshockton  Times-Age 
Dayton      News 
Hamilton       " 
Lima  " 

Marietta  Journal 
Massillon  Evening  Independent 
Newark  American-Tribune 

"        Advocate 
Springfield  Sun 
Toledo  Bee 

"        Blade 
Youngstown  Telegram 
"  Vindicator 

Oklahoma: 

Guthrie  Leader 

Oklahoma  City  Oklahoman 

Oregon: 

Pendleton  Oregonian 
Portland 

Pennsylvania: 

Allentown  Leader 

"  Democrat 

Chambersburg  Spirit 
Chester  Republican 
Easton  Free  Press 
Erie  Herald 

Greensburg  News  Record 
Hazelton  Standard 
Harrisburg  Patriot 
Norristown  Times 
Philadelphia  Evening  Ledger 
"  North  American 

Press 

Public  Ledger 
"  Record 

"  Telegraph 

Pittsburgh  Despatch 

"  Gazette  Times 

"  Ledger 

Post 
"         Telegraph 


Pottsville   Republic 
Washington  Reporter 
Westchester  News 
Wilkesbarre  Independent 

'*  Record 

York  Daily 

Despatch 
"       Gazette 

Rhode  Island: 

Newport  News 
Providence    Bulletin 

"  Evening  News 

"  Journal 

"  Tribune 

South  Carolina: 

Charleston  American 

"  Evening   Post 

"  News-Courrier 

Columbia  Record 

Greenville  News 

Spartanburg  Journal 

South  Dakota: 
Aberdeen  News 
Gupon  Spirit 
Madison  Leader 

Tennessee: 

Chattanooga  News 
Knoxville  Sentinel 
Memphis   Appeal 
"  Scimitor 

Texas: 

Galveston   News 
Greenville  Herald 
Jefferson  Jimpl'cte 
Fort  Worth  Record 
Waco  Times-Herald 

Utah: 

Salt  Lake  City  News 

"     Republican 
"         "         "     Tribune 

Vermont: 

Burlington  Free  Press 

"     ^       News 
Barre  Times 

Montpelier  Evening  Argus 
Rutland  Herald 

Virginia : 

Danville  Register 


[107] 


Lafayette  Day  a/nd  the  Press 


Newport  News  Herald 

"      Press 
Norfolk  Dispatch 

"        Virginian  Pilot 
Richmond  Journal 
Leader 
"  Times  Dispatch 

'*  Virginian 

Washington: 

Seattle  Intelligencer 

"        Times 
Spokane  Review 

W.  Virginia: 

Bluefield  Telegraph 


Clarksburg  Exponent 
"  Telegraph 

Grafton  Sentinel 
Morgantown  New  Dom. 
Wheeling  Intelligencer 

News 

Register 

Wisconsin: 

La  Crosse  Tribune 
Milwaukee  Evening  Wisconsin 
"  Journal 

Wyoming: 

Cheyenne  Tribune 


[108] 


The  fiational  Lafayette  Day  Gonimlttee  take  an  especial  pleasure  in 
availing  of  this  opportunity  to  thank  Mr.  Maurice  Leon  for  his 
unremitting  interest  and  care  to  which  are  attributable  both  the 
originating  of  and  the  steady  growth  of  public  , interest  in  the 
due  celebration  in  this  country  of  the  birthday  of  the  friend  of 
Constitutional  Liberty  and  of  America  and*"  the  (inniversary  of  the 
oonfliot  which  has  determined  that  that  Liberty  should  continue  to 
prevail  and  spread  through  the  world: -the  decisive  Battle  of  the 
Marne.   Mr.  Leon's  determination  that  the  day  should  be  marked  in 
this  country: -which  owes  so  much  to  the  Frauoo- American  Hero  and 
no  less  to  the  intrepid  legions  who  contended  for  the  right  on  the 
plains  of  France  on  September  6t^h<  1914;-  and  his  subsequent  ef- 
forts in  that  regard  have  in  our  opinion  aided  distinctly  in  re- 
viving, in  revivifying  and  in  broadening  the  kindly  sympathetic 
and  friendly  relations  between  the  twQ  lands  and  we  feel,  in  ten- 
dering hir  our.  thanks  for  a  zeal  and  a  discretion  which  have  so 
happily  resulted,  that  we  are  bearing  testimony  to  a  well  deservod 
gratitude  on  our  part  towards  him  and,  if  the  country  will  permit 
us  in  this  respect  to  speak  for  It,  on  its  part  al«o. 
;ember  7th,  1917.  Y        r> 


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